Nonfiction

BURBOTby Brandon Stillwell It secretes a thick slime, so viscous it forms webbing between your fingers. Its body the color of decaying milfoil, is patterned as if worms have burrowed through its skin. Its eyes...

Cheating on an exam is more of a strike against self-respect than failing it by honest effort. Most college or university students who cheat resent cheating, as if someone or something pressured them into...

Others are masters of facts. I’m a mistress of assumptions. Take away the neutrality of gender and more than half the best literature of the world falls apart under the weight of its own prejudices. A...

FAMILY PICTURESBy Cassidy Senefelder Flash! She hates taking family pictures. Especially the kind where your ice cold corpse sits in a coffin in a funeral home as the family poses for a picture out front....

A Big Wind Knocked It Over by Bethany Reid Westron wynde, when wilt thou blow,The small raine down can raine.Cryst, if my love were in my armesAnd I in my bedde again! -16th century, anonymous My husband is...

OTHERNESSUnpacking and questioning the ethics of passing versus publicizingby Isabel Armiento As a science-fiction fanatic, I am fascinated by the way appearance can be so instantly othering. The “other” is often synonymous with the “grotesque” –...

VANISHING POINT(Memoir Excerpt)By Clara Roberts St. Joseph Medical Center for Eating Disorders Admission Center March 21, 2004            My mom sits with me in a waiting room at St. Joseph's Medical Center around 8:30a.m. I tap...

DOGS, HOGS, AND SIGNSBy Bill Vernon The motorcyclist turning onto Bakers Road ahead of us had the 1960s Hell's Angels' look, but that impression didn't occur to me then anymore than did the fact I'd...

I have trouble sleeping these days. So, I ask my Alexa device to play re-created sounds of falling rain, which she mixes with some low-toned thunder. Nightly melatonin stopped working, so this is giving...

Alphabestiary Omer Wissman A is almost the emblem of anarchy, but its structure, like language itself, is fairly hierarchical, with narrow one percent nadir and top triangle superstructure over an empty as alienated base. As a...