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Category: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir

Blind Date by Terry Barr

April 15, 2019 admin 1 Comment

I once cheated a blind woman out of $125. She was a law student then, and I, an English MA. 

My teaching assistant stipend amounted to $484 a month. My monthly rent totaled $125 including steam heat and water. Electricity …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Terry Barr

Mrs. Harris by Anita G. Gorman

March 19, 2019 admin 2 Comments

     It was the late 1940s in Elmhurst, Queens. Our neighborhood was all-white, although a moderate walk from 55th Road would reveal one or more black families living on a hill with a nickname I cannot write all these years later. …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Anita G. Gorman

Bread and Olives by Joan Leotta

March 15, 2019 admin 1 Comment

Until age six, every Saturday, I went to work with my mother. Upon arrival, Mom began work on the adding machine and I was dispatched to walk one block to the Italian bakery where I would exchange a one-dollar bill …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Joan Leotta

Deep Breaths by Lois Villemaire

February 26, 2019 admin Leave a comment

      The fluttering in her chest began as she entered the destination address into her phone. There was no pain but a distinct uneasy feeling that spread to her diaphragm and transformed into a mass of swirling butterflies. …

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December 1994, 110th and Central Park West by Ana Rojas Halland

February 25, 2019 admin 3 Comments

I hadn’t found a place to live yet, and was crashing on someone’s couch. Staying up all night to tour the city was a welcome change from feeling almost homeless and certainly rootless. Late night, there are no lines to …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Ana Rojas Halland

Future Priest by Karen Curran

February 24, 2019 admin 8 Comments

When my son-in-law, Taylor, described how his children’s varied personalities were demonstrated on a recent hike, I began to wonder at what age career paths could be determined. Will Hannah, age five, who wanted to organize the play and tell …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Karen Curran

Modern Renaissance Time Travel by Nancy Jorgensen

February 16, 2019 admin 7 Comments

At 6 p.m., arrivals march through my door. A trumpet dangles from Hal’s shoulder; a wooden recorder balances in Jo’s palm; wind chimes swing from Sandy’s wrist. My adult daughter Elizabeth whispers in my ear. “Mom, I don’t know anybody …

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Daydreams of Doing by Sam Rose

February 12, 2019 admin Leave a comment

I decided that one day I would get up, liberated not just from cancer, but by cancer. I would live out the best possible outcome from this nightmare, and there would only be fantasies made real, only things ticked off …

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Agony of De-Feet by Sara Garland

February 9, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Unemployed.

            The word itself is a vacuum, having stolen the last shreds of my identity. At the same time, it was my choice to add this new title to my name.

            I didn’t want to wear that label for long, …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Sara Garland

Our Father, Who Art in Liminal Space by Marlee Head

February 5, 2019 admin 6 Comments


When I was a child, the church was a holy place. God was real and we worshipped him because he was great. It wasn’t until I was older that I got the notion that religion did more harm than good. …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Marlee Head

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