Creative Nonfiction

FARM HANDS by Mark Abdon

November 15, 2023

The rocking horse was hideous, though. It was the eyes. Wide open and vacant, set too high on that giant head. The foot-pegs had snapped off on Black Friday.

THE CARRIAGE ROOM by Mary Ann McGuigan

September 20, 2023

He returned home silent, even more sullen. I asked him about Mrs. Marra once, but he looked at me as if all memories, good or bad, had been erased.

On the morning that she died, I don’t think I knew that it was the day that we would stop waiting. We were just going to her bedside, as we did. As we had done for days. Suspended in that grief fog, gritty and spinning.

CLAIM OF VALUABLES by Kristen Swan Morrison

August 7, 2023

You’re too busy thinking about the bag that held your common sense, dignity, and your partner’s trust in you, the bag that’s undoubtedly getting further away the longer you sit here.

GETTING QUIET by Emily Marie Seibert

July 19, 2023

The parrot needed quietude and a sense of security in order to come down. My neighbors must’ve pegged me as mad.

JUST THE EDGES by Molly Wadzeck Kraus

July 10, 2023

Rolling down the window, I decipher through the breeze, Listen, I think we need to stop this. Hours ago, you had my breasts in your hands. OK, whatever, it’s fine, I said.

CRYING IN THE SEX SHOP by LHC

June 28, 2023

The thing about being in a sex shop is that you’re trying to signal with your body language *I feel cool and normal about sex.*

UGLY BOYS by Daniel Isaiah Elder

June 21, 2023

Men. A constant desire, sometimes simmering, often burning. Never sated. And for him, I knew, it had been even longer.

ENTER MY OWN FLESH by Sofia Drummond-Moore

June 14, 2023

I made this dangerous anomaly. I think I might have made it on purpose. I think maybe I asked for this interruption.

DOING VERY WELL! by Tippy Rex

May 31, 2023

It was cold on the floor, I confess, but I thought it was OK. Since he left, I wake up every morning and marvel at all the me-warmed space on the mattress.