Nonfiction

THE CHIPPED-TOOTHED HEARTBy LaDonna Friesen   I pushed a button, and the rear van door beeped like a pulse. It felt hot enough inside it to be a heart. I loaded a couple cloth bags of...

NACHESBy Jeffrey Loeb   West of the city the river road beckoned, all soft oak-leaves and ripening corn. It struck me as a place for reflection, so on impulse I cut north off the Interstate, over...

GOING HUNTINGBy Cynthia Close We were driving from Boston to my parent’s home in New Jersey. Pete had the rifle in the back of the van. It was Thanksgiving and deer season in Jersey. My...

A PISS ON THE CHEEKBy Walker Thomas   My escape took me as far as Tucson, where I ditched the car and volunteered for the draft. I bussed to El Paso for basic training at Fort...

KILLINGS AND ABDUCTIONBy Tamas Dobozy The summer of 1981 was the summer of murdered children.The bodies had been turning up for a year in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, mainly the Vancouver area. Places...

MEDIOCRE EXISTENCIALISTBy Rebecca Kirschbaum You slurred about how you loved yourself while you hung from a balcony, two stories in the air, staring at the frozen ground beneath you.It was a night drenched in booze,...

MEDIEVAL SURGERY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUMBy Dr. Raymond Fenech Who isn’t overawed by the progress that medicine has made in this third millennium? Yet few people know that basically all that we...

TRIAL BY FIREby Braelyn Riggs The first time I ever saw an automatic paper towel dispenser was when I was nine years old. My seven year old sister Jerica and I were standing in a...

JOYby Allen Long In December 2016 in the San Francisco Bay area, I drove to my orthopedic surgeon’s office in considerable pain.  Despite near-agony in my right leg, I experienced a sudden overpowering joy.  It...

I FEEL FIRMLYby G David Schwartz  I feel firmly that God will not condemn any hunan being to eternal damnation if because they did or did not believe in something presented to the from out...