Issue No.6 Creative Nonfiction

Riley Morsman

Sometimes I Think About Death and it Kills Me

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As I stand in the shower and watch morning slither in through the milky window, I think about death. I think about it over and over again, my mind turning…

Andrew Rihn

From Revelation

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Tyson vs. Johnson Sep 5, 1985 Atlantis Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Twenty-four seconds into the fight, a left hook to the body drops Johnson, so immediate…

Melinda Nazario

Uprooted

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I couldn’t bear another season of drought, watching others blossom all around me, people content with themselves and their callings—nurses, cops, teachers—while I continued slowly withering away, becoming a person I…

Jennifer Lang

Illusion of Harmony

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When I meet my American friend for coffee, she tells me she can’t sleep. Since last summer’s Israel-Gaza Conflict and the recent slew of stabbings, she’s riddled with gloom-and-doom feelings…