In 2015, Hippocampus published about 150 pieces of creative nonfiction in its 12 issues. With input from our staff, I narrowed down these hundred-plus stories to these six…
I wake up sweating and lie there as the adrenaline ebbs, running through what I would take, if I had to leave. The mental cataloging starts: what I have lost already; what I have yet to lose; an inventory of what matters.