…I wasn’t there to kill him. I was there to interview him, although the bastard deserved to die for all the death and suffering he and his ilk had caused the Guatemalan people…
A Temporary Release from the Blues by John F. Miglio
Category: May 2014
Watergate Summer by Eve Goldberg
I watched the 1973 Watergate hearings from a motel room…I had dropped out of college and was working as a maid at the Vagabond Motor Inn in Santa Barbara.
Hope is the Thing by Anne Frantilla
At the doctor’s office that afternoon, the young, fit Asian doctor in his designer loafers read from the standard test for memory loss…
Entries by Katie Mehrer
You’re sitting on the bus seat and the boys are trying to touch you. You’re staring forward telling yourself it’s not worth it to fight back.
Things My Mother Couldn’t Tell Me by Karen Lentz
Once upon a time, or so I imagine, a woman learned things from other women. Had I been born in an earlier age it was something on which I could have counted.
Is This a Date? by Huda Al-Marashi
Dr. Farber bounced a black, leather whip in her palm when she said the ladies in our classroom would find Taoist sexual philosophy especially interesting.
No Sign of Daddy by Darrelyn Saloom
Mama said the reason she tossed Daddy to the curb was because he’d been living in a Georgia prison for getting lassoed into a counterfeiting scheme.
Interview: Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins, editors of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre
Several terms have been used to identify this genre: nonfiction, contemporary nonfiction, or creative nonfiction – a term that some reject.
Review: Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing by Daniel Robinson
Review by Kacy MuirOne of my favorite novels and films happens to be one in the same — Big Fish —written by Daniel Wallace and John August, respectively. The reasons are many, but two stand out in particular. Together, both mediums aspire to inspire the art of storytelling and evoke romanticism in a swift, but…
Craft: How to Be a Writer by Risa Nye
Where will your writing life take you? If you don’t sit down, get started and roll the die by submitting your work, you’ll never know.
