WHAT I REMEMBER OF THE DRAGON by Kaylin Moore
At nine years old, I was Hermione Granger.
That all-too-familiar feeling of adrenaline and fear always seemed to creep in at the most inopportune times, that beast. It made my tiny hands shake at family...
LETTING GO by Brooke Castillo
I look at the grass art, leaning towards me at a 45-degree angle. Six flags are overlapping one another so elegantly, every blade of grass not surpassing the one next to it. I...
LOVEBIRDS by William McMillan
They came every day to see one another. She worked at a bookstore on a college campus- selling kids who could be her children’s children books, notepads, and pens. All the bullshit that freshmen...
MUCH TOO YOUNG Gary E. Calhoun, PhD
The story starts in a working class neighborhood in the shadows of downtown Jacksonville. Among a row of houses where the families live week to week and at times day to day a young...
THE SETTING by Emily Vest
The Crescent Woods Skate Park
Drake chants from teenagers’ Bluetooth radios, his voice reverberating against the hot metal skateboard ramps of this summer evening. Elementary school kids sneaker up the ramps and slide back down,...
THE CATCH by Kristen Langlois
I’ve always hated fishing. My father took me when I was a teen, and the horror thatfollowed ensured I’d never do it again. My husband loves fishing, and when he first asked mewhy I...
HOW TO TELL PEOPLE I AM WORDLESS WHEN I AM UNABLE TO SAY IT...
People used to say I was special. It wasn’t so much that my personality set me apart, I was painfully shy and gave little of myself away. The “gift” I was told I had...
THE STORY OF THE STORYTELLERS by Richard Owen Collins
This is the kind of thing I would normally put in a fictional story I’m writing as part of a character’s opinion. It’s like I’m protecting myself that way.
Because the thing is I have...
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: LOST AND FOUND by Anu Kumar
My first encounter with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was an old Dean and Son edition from 1950. It's sharp-edged hardbound cover, glazed and awash with colors, showed a man in a long frock...
ILLNESS AND THE MOVEMENT OF TIME by A.M. Palmer
Illness and the Movement of Time
Reflections on Architecture, Music, and the Benefits of Raw Honey (2018)
The movement of time becomes painfully apparent when one is ill, either droning on during treatment and recovery, or...