by BlogEditor | Nov 7, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Deception by Leslie Tucker FollowFollowFollow The day I met Anna went like this. Big friendly smile, “Hi, I’m Anna, can you believe these streets are such a mess?” I opened my mouth but before I could speak she shook her head, patted her protruding belly and chuckled....
by BlogEditor | Nov 2, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
A Room Without Windows by Lily Beeson-Norwitz FollowFollowFollow I once counted my heartbeats and mistook them for yours. I sat up straight when you entered the room and offered you my body without opening my mouth. When your eyes glanced toward me, I looked down and...
by BlogEditor | Oct 28, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Recipe for Forgiveness by Julie Lockhart FollowFollowFollow My mother loved to tell. She would place the stool in the tiny kitchen and tell me to watch her cook. She’d never let me cook or bake by myself. No, you would make a big mess, she’d tell me. I can still hear...
by BlogEditor | Oct 20, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Snapshots of a Past By Clara Oropeza FollowFollowFollow In the dream, you are a passenger inside a car that turns right onto the sleepy cul-de-sac of Bierenberg Place. On the left, you recognize the two-story brick house that sits behind a low-picket wooden fence...
by BlogEditor | Oct 17, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
The Session by Cornelia Mars FollowFollowFollow [Please note that names have been changed, and dialogue has been translated and shortened for brevity] I’m walking up the sunny side of a residential street in Montreal. It’s late March, and a cold snap has...
by BlogEditor | Sep 27, 2022 | Book Reviews
The Muralist by Carrie Hagen FollowFollowFollow The Muralist: Of Matter Deep and Dangerousby Carrie Hagen Luminare PressAugust 2022Paperback, 298 pagesISBN-10: 1643889257ISBN-13: 978-1643889252 Book review by Diana Morris-Bauer The city of Philadelphia at once boasts...
by BlogEditor | Sep 23, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Math Class isn’t Tough. What Comes After is Tough. by Jessica Manack FollowFollowFollow Can a woman ever really stop tallying the figures of her life? It was just before 9:00 a.m., we were finishing breakfast, the toddler playing with his food more than eating it. I...
by BlogEditor | Sep 22, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Her Sunflower Apron by Gail Ghai FollowFollowFollow When Ginny Reuben’s kitten, Tickle, got stuck in our giant elm tree, the neighbors flooded our front yard as if free food samples were being offered. The kids jumped, screamed, and cried, trying to coax the...
by BlogEditor | Sep 16, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Anna’s Cabinetsby Laura Plummer FollowFollowFollow Section 8 apartments are all the same. Shady characters linger in the lobby, wearing too many layers for mid-July. When I visit, they speak to each other in code and tuck their hands into their pockets.In unit...
by BlogEditor | Sep 15, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
My Father’s Boxes by Laura Plummer FollowFollowFollow In the basement is a shelf of identical cardboard boxes labeled in my father’s heavy, slanted writing. This is his system for categorizing his universe. Boxes of cables and wires, antique watch parts,...
