She is ninety-one, bedridden at home, and dying of congestive heart failure.
The Fragility of Bowls by Gwen L. Martin
Category: Memoir
Our archive of past pieces that are part of a larger work of creative nonfiction.
Call Me Master by Kate Sheridan
He ate mustard straight from the jar, guzzling big sloppy spoonfuls like they were chocolate.
Daddy Doesn’t Do Courthouses by Stuart Horwitz
I was a waiter. Well, really, I was a writer.
Dead Weight by Claire O’Brien
The first time I encountered rigor mortis I was seven.
Learning to Lose (excerpt from Brooklyn Reveries) by Ruth Q. Leibowitz
The first thing I noticed were the tiny droplets of water that shone on his eyelashes.
Salt by Lizzie Roberts
It was after the first snow when I learned Detroit was built on a salt mine.
The Death of Sonny by Lisa Cooper Ellison
Sitting in the band’s touring van as we waited for our new driver, Mario, I was once again surrounded by smoke.
Moment of Zen by Margie Patlak
Nearly every day, my brother Joe tinkered with the world, the world he was leaving.
Higher, Farther, Faster by Anne Pinkerton
“Why would someone want to do that?” my mother asks. She is sitting at my dining room table and has opened my new issue of Outside Magazine …
The Color Purple by Kelley Lusk
I remember the glass shattering. Her fist breaching the window, instead of my face—there was red.
