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,...
by BlogEditor | Aug 25, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
The Cool Girlsby Laura Plummer FollowFollowFollow It’s Lyndsy’s eleventh birthday. The girls she invited are a year older than us. Wanting to impress them, I show off by doing handstands in the above-ground pool. I’m wearing my tie-dye one-piece and feeling totally...
by BlogEditor | Aug 18, 2022 | Book Reviews
My Place in the Spiral by Rebecca Beardsall FollowFollowFollow My Place in the Spiralby Rebecca Beardsall Atmosphere Press, 2021$17.99ISBN: 9781636495255 Book Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens With My Place in the Spiral, Rebecca Beardsall invites the reader along on her...
by BlogEditor | Aug 16, 2022 | Fiction
Amanda Maynard, Author of The Quixote by Carla Miriam Levy FollowFollowFollow Amanda cradles the book in both hands; she can hardly believe it’s here. She has lurked in McIntyre’s second-hand bookstore for weeks, hoping its musty shelves would offer up this prize, but...
by BlogEditor | Aug 10, 2022 | Fiction
The Girls by Kelli Short Borges FollowFollowFollow Flora stands at the edge of the desert trail, sweat trickling down her back. Scraping her thick chestnut hair back into a high ponytail, she looks forward, her gaze set in determination. Today is the day—she’s going...
by BlogEditor | Aug 4, 2022 | Fiction
Golem by Victoria Mack FollowFollowFollow The monster first appears in the shape of a small child, on an unseasonably warm winter day in New York City. It is late morning, and the windowpanes in Becca’s Washington Heights Elementary School classroom, already spotted...
by Web Designer | Jul 28, 2022 | Minerva's Dispatch, News & Events
Mother of my Invention, 2021 Memoir Contest Winner FollowFollowFollow Our memoir contest winner from last year, Janice Airhart, named her memoir Mother of my Invention. Janice takes seriously what her father once told her: “You can be anything you want to be.” As a...
by BlogEditor | Jul 26, 2022 | Book Reviews
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich FollowFollowFollow The Sentenceby Louise Erdrich Harper Collins 2021$28.99ISBN: 978-0-06-267112-7 Book Review by Ariel Jennings It took me a very long time to read this novel because I knew it would challenge me in the most brutal of...
