NonFiction - Year IV - Number 22 - March 2019

GRAND DESIGNby Steven Markusen An insistent voice brought me out of the void and darkness.“What is your name? Where are you?”My eyes opened to see a chiseled face with furrowed brow. Pain stabbed my side....

SHAPING BEHAVIORby Isabelle Runge I pressed my foot firmly into the gas pedal, maneuvering in and out of lanes at an anxious pace. With one hand on the wheel, I reached my other into the...

THE GOLDEN RECORDby Emmi Conner   I have spent a lot of my life looking up at the night sky, wondering what surrounds the stars that we can see from Earth. I’ve dedicated countless hours to...

ALL THE THINGS WE OCCUPYby Amanda Gaines My mother collects daughters. In 1994, at twenty-six, she had her first. One year later she founded a nonprofit for women in Lincoln County: The Girl’s Resiliency Program....

LOUD MUSICby Leslie Tucker He is mournful and scornful, bellowing about love in vain, alternating a velvet baritone with a nasal whine. Thick, damp hair flops at his shoulders. His ivory-colored sequined jumpsuit, open to...

HOW THE FILM THE EXORCIST CAME ABOUTby Dr. Raymond Fenech Part 1 A small group of nuns and priests met the woman in the chapel of a house one June evening. Though it was warm outside,...