Creative Nonfiction

  • January 17, 2024 Stevi L. Smith
    Illustration by Shovo / Adobe StockI’m sitting on an exam table talking to a nurse practitioner about a pain in my lower left abdomen. I’ve only ever been to the gynecologist once—she prescribed me bi…
  • December 13, 2023 Connor Lee McLean
    Photo courtesy of the authorReading a secondhand copy of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, a reader encounters another consciousness in the margins. I’d like to say that I stumbled up…
  • November 30, 2023 Marlene Olin
    Photo courtesy of the authorWe each safeguard our possessions. Michael buries his pens inside a drawer. Rachel hides her purse. On tiptoes, I lay my watch on the highest shelf. Things the puppy eats:…
  • July 26, 2023 Gerard McKeown
    Tom Podmore / UnsplashIn this creative nonfiction from London, a question once asked suspiciously becomes a question a man asks himself as a way of checking in. The first memory I have of thi…
  • June 28, 2023 Andrew Zubiri
    Photo composite by Parker Buske / Source image by Marcin Jucha on Adobe StockA Filipino writer now living in Boston explores a tradition of farewell parties that share felicitations to send off pe…
  • May 4, 2023 Marlene Olin
    Photo courtesy of the authorA late winter storm and a decaying Chevy Suburban underscore the emerging fragilities of life in their seventies for a writer and her husband. We bought the Suburb…
  • January 17, 2023 Marlene Olin
    Annie Spratt / Unsplash Family news still travels, but not as it once did, when families huddled together over landlines. Though I was only seven, my memories are clear. It was 1960. Chubby…
  • May 4, 2022 Lauren K. Watel
    The Capuchin Crypt, beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome. Credit: Dnalor 01 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Surely I owe this particular take on Bone Baroque to my pos…
  • July 8, 2019 Nilufar Karimi
    Photo by cactusbeetroot / Flickr I take a book off the shelf in a small graduate office I wander into that resembles a bunker. The book is Cyclonopedia, by Reza Negarestani. I thoug…