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…
The first sound is the foot sound, the break sound, the cracking crunch that hikers know… It is a stubborn, short sound, underneath your boots. Ka-krack, krunch, it says. It says little else.