Hippocampus Magazine is giving away more than $1,200 in cash and prizes this November in our fifth annual Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction.
I’d plopped myself down almost two-thousand miles from my snug Midwestern life on a sight-unseen Navajo Reservation in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico.
I have never been naked with a boy before, so when the six of us play strip poker in the dark, I feel a kind of bravery, a certain independent naughtiness.
I’ve never been what you would call manly. I’m short, kind of nerdy, never particularly athletic, unless you count a one-time, third-place finish in a regional Ping-Pong tournament…