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I Lines
by Bobby Crace

February 21, 2022 Contributed By: Bobby Crace

Black and White Lines

The words surrounding an “I” form sentences that can be referred to as “I Lines.” A person knows how to be an “I” before they know what an “I” is.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: February 21, 2022

Year-End Wrap-Up: The MAYDAY Editors’ Books of the Year

December 17, 2021

Bookshelf Door Entrance

Looking for book recommendations? To celebrate the end of the year, the MAYDAY editorial staff shares the books they read and revisited in 2021.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: December 17, 2021

Murmurations (I): First Memory of Birds
by Heather Bartel

December 16, 2021 Contributed By: Heather Bartel

Sunset Ocean

Is a family portrait still a family portrait when a family is missing the mother?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: December 16, 2021

Made Easy
by Venus Noirre

November 4, 2021 Contributed By: Venus Noirre

Save Me Tattoo on Neck

“I was pimped out by an acquaintance when I was at my most vulnerable. It may come across I’m cavalier with this, but I’m not. I’ve just let the shame of it all go.”

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: November 4, 2021

The Boy Is Now an Obituary
by Alyse Bensel

September 27, 2021 Contributed By: Alyse Bensel

Not One More cropped

What killed him has been excised from the obituary. It exists in the blank space along the margins. Because it is easier to say died than overdosed.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: September 27, 2021

You Seem Really Lonely
by Sage Tyrtle

September 1, 2021 Contributed By: Sage Tyrtle

Lonely Child

For two weeks I wish Marta dead. With every breath I take in. I am not proud of this.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: September 1, 2021

GROCERY STORE ARTIST
by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

July 26, 2021 Contributed By: Joshua Got­tlieb-Miller

Within our disorienting, indefinite pandemic, the lonesome invisibility of retail workers has become ironized by their initial hyper-visibility.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: July 26, 2021

Persian Night
by Douglas Cole

June 23, 2021 Contributed By: Douglas Cole

Courtesy of Andrew Sato

She placed a cup of the hot elixir on the counter before me. On the surface of the cup little dragonfish swirled around like visual laughter. I felt my stomach tighten and my heart speed up. Here we go . . .

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Content, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: June 23, 2021

First Monsoon
by Nazanin Knudsen

June 9, 2021 Contributed By: Nazanin Knudsen

First Moonsoon

10. Early Mornings The 5:00 AM train that goes through the Sixth Street underpass whistles in the distance. Shuffling the pillows, I try to find a position that offers some relief from the pressure in the back of my neck. I live in an apartment near the University of Arizona campus. As an only child […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: June 9, 2021

You’d Just Be Different, That’s All: Revisiting Catcher in the Rye in 2020
by Sam Rebelein

May 24, 2021 Contributed By: Sam Rebelein

A man reads Catcher in the Rye

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know about is that crumby article I found a few years back. It was a really phony piece, in The Guardian or something and all, written by this very intellectual guy who says he re-reads Catcher in the Rye every […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: May 24, 2021

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