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Category: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir

Evergreen by Brenda Gvozdanovic

August 21, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Whenever a recipe calls for bay leaves, I can’t help but think of Irena. From the simmering warmth of my winter kitchen, I’m transported to the Adriatic in high summer. 

You see, I have them still, the bay leaves she …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Brenda Gvozdanovic

Australia by Mary Thompson

August 11, 2019 admin Leave a comment

What if I hadn’t drifted over to Melbourne on a whim, to hook up with Jim, that permaculture expert I snogged at a random party, on a random evening, in an as yet ungentrified area of London way back in …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Mary Thompson

Survive. Live. by Edward Lee

August 4, 2019 admin 1 Comment

Like too many fathers across the globe I only get to see my daughter every second weekend. Out of 336 hours, I get 30. Before, as a stay at home dad, I saw my daughter every day. I got her …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Edward Lee

The False Alarm by Jennifer Carr

July 13, 2019 admin Leave a comment

 I remember being in the indoor public swimming pool at the local gym club when the strangest thing happened to me.

There was myself and about 15 other people in the pool on that Saturday morning. I was there by …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Jennifer Carr

Way of the Educator by Nick Philliou

July 11, 2019 admin 2 Comments

He stood tall, the mist of morning surrounded his head and rose out of his mug. He regulated, with big, slow, loam filled breaths, his desire to spring into the forest and happily disappear, deeper and deeper into the woods, …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Nick Philliou

Colour of Gender by V.J. Beecham

June 23, 2019 admin 2 Comments

For six years, my home has been a foster home to teenagers in foster care. During those six years, my partner has only ever wanted to care for a girl of pre-schooler age. Just one – that’s all my partner …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: V.J. Beecham

The Ball Collector by Lois Villemaire

June 7, 2019 admin 5 Comments

We found out about her death because Dad saw her obituary in the newspaper. A week or two later, her property was posted with a sign advertising the sale of the contents of her home. Dad collected antiques and anything …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Lois Villemaire

Summer on the Farm by Michelle Rae Kissinger

May 31, 2019 admin 3 Comments

Wood smoke burns my eyes despite the air flowing in the door and out the roof vents of the cinder block cookhouse. My job is to stir the copper kettle filled with pig necks, feet, hearts, and livers that will …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Michelle Rae Kissinger

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

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