by BlogEditor | Oct 10, 2024 | Fiction
I Was Supposed to Stay Out When the Bedroom Door Was Closed by Holly Fine FollowFollowFollow Cigarette burn holes in my cardigan meant Mom kept me close. I counted them in her comforter, seared edges lined up like Orion’s Belt. Ashes into wormholes into news anchors...
by BlogEditor | Oct 7, 2024 | Fiction
When The Mermaids Came by Holly Barratt FollowFollowFollow It was early Valentine’s Day morning when the first one washed up dead near Bridgend. By 10am there was a crowd around the rotting carcass. Eventually three officers broke through, dragged it up the beach,...
by BlogEditor | Sep 25, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Banned Book Week by Kim Brown FollowFollowFollow Images by Kim Brown from The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn This past week, I was walking down the street of the town where I live with my two-year-old granddaughter, who had recently had a meltdown at the Mexican restaurant...
by BlogEditor | Sep 18, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
A Lesson in Art & Life by Geri Lipschultz FollowFollowFollow Photo of Denali by author I’ll say right now that I did not see Matanuska Glacier or Kenai fjords or Resurrection Bay or the bright blue ice, and I did not venture to fly into the frozen recesses of...
by BlogEditor | Sep 4, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Awakening by Mary Lane Potter FollowFollowFollow Painting by Miriam Zora Engel (author’s daughter) “Do you know what dust is?” my twelve-year-old daughter asks, looking up from her biology homework. Her voice swells with the power of knowing and the promise of youth....
by BlogEditor | Aug 28, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
A Scar That Burns by April McCloud FollowFollowFollow Photo by Hannah Grace via Unsplash The thing I remember most about dying, is how much it burns. Gasping for air, returning to life, the pain is exquisite. Everything else is burned away as the heat and fire...
