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The Po’ele Box
by Kirby Wright

December 21, 2020 Contributed By: Kirby Wright

Bus in Hawaii

I SWEATED IT OUT on the floral-print couch between Troy and our mother. We were waiting for my old man to get home. My brother gnashed his gum. Jenny was visiting her friend Heidi Bathen and I was glad she was gone. I saw our reflection in the living room mirror—we had looks of impending […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: December 21, 2020

Bike to the Future
by Krista Foss

June 1, 2020 Contributed By: Krista Foss

Image courtesy Kelly Sikkema   The scrap yard at the north end of my long city street hummed like a dystopic anthill, the day I drove up in my 15-year-old compact car, parked in front of a heap of flattened wrecks winking in an oily sun, got out, and made my way to a busy […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: June 1, 2020

Some Notes on the Nonexistence of Wakanda
by Gerry Canavan

May 26, 2020 Contributed By: Gerry Canavan

Academics who study science fiction have typically been fixated on what they see as its privileged relationship with futurity. By imagining a possible shape for the future that will someday arise out of the present—however prescient, realistic, or patently ridiculous a particular author’s imagination of that future might be—science fiction narratives help restore to us […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: May 26, 2020

The Miracle of Ordinary
by Janette Schafer

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Janette Schafer

The only things that remain of his past as a drug dealer are the physical indicators: pocked track marks in the creases of his arms, outlines of faded tattoos from decades ago, scars from the knife attacks of heroin-starved junkies or pushers trying to thrust themselves into his territory. He is a quiet older man […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: July 1, 2018

Good and Decent People
by Jerome Richard

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Jerome Richard

We were standing on the parade grounds in Nuremberg where Hitler once addressed throngs of enthralled Germans. It was the scene of Leni Riefenstahl’s awe-inspiring propaganda film Triumph of the Will. Our guide for that morning told us that she was born in 1968 and that when she was old enough to learn about what happened […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Nonfiction Posted On: July 1, 2018

The Nightmare Next Door
by Tom Larsen

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Tom Larsen

My mother is standing on a bench in the spare bedroom. I can see by the certainty of her movements that she’s done this before. “Look,” she points. “They turned the refrigerators around. Sanders must have told them I complained.” Through the window I can see two rusting refrigerators standing flush against the back of […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Nonfiction Posted On: July 1, 2018

The Gospel of Dearth
by Joshua Bernstein

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Joshua Bernstein

“You have to be wealthy in order to be great.” – Donald Trump, campaign speech, Bismarck, North Dakota, May 26, 2016   In The Power Elite, his 1956 study of the powerful’s manipulation of the powerless, C. Wright Mills, the American sociologist, sounded what would probably be his most devastating critique of ingrained assumptions about wealth: […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Nonfiction Posted On: July 1, 2018

Changing
by Erinn Seifert

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Erinn Seifert

You lie awake, tired and lonesome underneath a horrifyingly new patchwork blanket of your dead grandfather’s old clothing. The boy dropped you off thirty minutes ago, and you walked the half mile up your secluded driveway in the middle of the last dark hour before dawn broke. The pine trees buzzed with morning birds and […]

Filed Under: Essays, Featured Essays, Nonfiction Posted On: January 1, 2018

What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah?
by Leonard Kress

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Leonard Kress

1. My favorite episode of Jill Soloway’s tragi-comic Transparent focuses on the family’s youngest daughter, Ali Pfefferman, who at age 13 refuses to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah. This is no small matter, since her mother has spent thousands on preparations—food, invitations, reception, booze, etc., and she’s both horrified and humiliated by the prospect of canceling. At first, […]

Filed Under: Essays, Nonfiction Posted On: January 1, 2018

Unrequited
by Kelly Miller

October 1, 2016 Contributed By: Kelly Miller

I’m masturbating across the hall from her dying.  I’ve just finished giving her a bed bath. With that crazy half-detachment required when someone you love has stopped being that person. And has become instead this sickness. A moany dissolving body to be turned and agitated and tended. She can’t take soap or touch. I squeezed water from a soft […]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Posted On: October 1, 2016

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