NonFiction - Year IV - Number 24 - May 2019

HOME FREEby Andrew Chinich  I grew up next to a grave yard. My alarm clock for school was dirt and gravel bouncing off the lowered coffins.From my bedroom window I could see those black holes in...

HOLD HER ONCE AGAINby Juanita Tovar  I It’s Saturday. Sábado. In the AM. The sky is a solid shade of light blue, unclouded and pristine. Its pastel hues are reflected on Juanita’s red sunglasses as she...

THE TROUBLE WITH GERRYby Christopher Harris  In 1964 my thirty-one-year-old brother Gerry cut himself off from our family. I was 19. I’ve never come to terms with his disappearance. Many times I’ve thought of him,...

VALERIE MAUD GOLDMANby Valerie Angel    According to ANAD, an online resource agency for eating disorders, “At least 30 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the US.” At...

I WONDER WHERE THAT VIDEO IS NOWby Molly Blumhoefer     Jess, Devin and I had gutter punk boyfriends, dirt covered squatters who travelled through Minneapolis during the warmer months. In the mid-nineties, most of this...

WEST AFRICA: MANY TRUTHS WITHIN THE BACKGROUND NOISEby Joram Piatigorsky Traveling on vacation, temporarily escaping the monotony of the familiar, easing the burden of responsibilities, riding air currents far above traffic jams and local politics...

BLOWING UP THE WORLDby Michael Robinson Morris   A committee gathered in the cosmos, an intergalactic council assembled to decide the fate of the Planet Earth.  Not the Earth as it is today, but Earth...

THE WASHOUTSby Patrick Hahn   “Morning, Ray.”            It’s six o clock in the morning. Sunrise is still a ways off. Ray barely looks up from the pump engine he’s bent over like some kind of...