Guts by Mark Sullivan
I hustled to fourth period medical biology class, a blur of flared jeans, flannel and mutton-chop sideburns. This was my favorite class while a junior at Frankfurt American High School in 1974. I’d be...
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The truth is you sleep in your day clothes. You are prone to drifting off in odd postures: sideways at the breakfast bar, next to the pile of mail with his name on it; face down on your laptop (the...
View ArticleThe View From the Moon by Susan Kieffer
One crackling September morning in 1969, my first grade teacher told the class to line up for a trip to the auditorium. I stuck my chewing gum to the underside of my desk. In the auditorium, we filed...
View ArticleNine Things Said Over a Hospital Bed by Jessica Allen
1. “Look, a bunny rabbit.” Seconds before my father collapsed from cardiac arrest, he pointed out a rabbit to his granddaughter. He had been at dinner at Disney World with his wife, her daughter, and...
View ArticleBare by Jason Griffith
Slopes rose into a glacial half halo above the cirque. Stream tendrils reached down from melting snowfields to bisect the alpine meadow. A full moon peeked over the pyramid of Thunderbird Peak in the...
View ArticleTogether, in Orange by Joelle Berger
Photo provided by author; it’s a scan of an image her grandfather keeps in his wallet. “Bulllll-” I hesitated to say it. I was only eleven, but everyone else, likewise entrenched in orange and black...
View ArticleA Manual for Fire and Stories by Hannah Straton
Most Memorable: October 2014 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? Flames rejoice around the kindling, their elegantly dangerous silhouettes leaping from stick to log and back to stick again, bright against the dark...
View ArticleWho Watches the Guáchiman? by Robert Isenberg
Every time I leave my apartment in Costa Rica, I pass a small security booth. It is just large enough to house a full-grown adult. A striped traffic arm hovers above the street. When I reach the arm, a...
View ArticleTwice upon a Trip by Judy Whitehill Witt
A visit to Aunt Ree’s house in Newburgh, New York, always guaranteed something intriguing. She had no children of her own, so she passed along to her nieces and nephews her lifetime collection of...
View ArticleThe Mint Farm by Liesl Nunns
Rose brings the books home for me on day one of my flu-ridden confinement. The Old Order Amish in Plain Words and Pictures and, simply, The Amish. She knows I love the Amish—in the way one loves all...
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