Issue 10 Creative Nonfiction

In the present, my grandma, who has turned 77 today, and who has birthed 7 children during her lifetime, talks about the diet that she will go on, on Monday.…

1 When I was a teenager, I wanted to be one. Late nights I watched black and whites starring Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, movies full of mist and magic,…

At some point in my adulthood, I began telling people I grew up in a trailer. The more it left my mouth, the more symbolic the sentence became, the more…

It’s Friday morning and I have just learned that Mattel is making a new Barbie. It’s the talk of my department. Cradling coffee mugs and balancing textbooks, my colleagues and…

At sunset, I walk to the top of the knob, the zenith and center of the farm where my grandparents raised Guernsey and Hereford and Angus cattle. I take in…