Nonfiction

BECKY AND AMYBy Kate LaDew  You were doomed, of course (the two of you) from the beginning.  But you had to live out those years (eleven for her, eighteen for you) before you ever knew...

NELS NORMANN'S LAST PROBLEMBy Kimm Brockett Stammen It was on a remote Northern California trout stream in August, 1920, that Nels Normann encountered his first problem. “At 18 months of age, I became dissatisfied with...

After a recent move, while unpacking, I noticed a carefully-wrapped package inside an old cardboard box.  Ripping off its layers of yellowed paper, I saw a white enameled mug still sparkling as brightly as...

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...

Since retiring and moving to Florida, my wife, Mary, and I have become news junkies. This is not because we have more time to fill, but because the news has acquired the fascination of...

COMPETITIONby Sylvia Semel   CompetitionThis is about competition between multiples as well as other children. Introduction My brother and I are opposite-sex fraternal twins. I would like to share my experience being a twin, discuss the unique problems...

A HUNDRED PENNIESby Christopher Major Sundays are usually reserved for cleaning and nothing else. I’d made up in my mind that anything worthwhile happened between Mondays and Saturdays. It was this Sunday, however, that had...

REAL IS THE RARER THINGby Roger Topp “It’s near checkout time and I need to escape the hotel without paying.” Imogen has abandoned me, never returning to the room last night. I send the text...

I was 14 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986. I was glued to the classroom television because, like other school children in the US, I was actively taken along on...

MYSTERIES OF ENGLISH CLASS: GANESHBy Gregg Williard   Today’s ESL class is a YouTube video of “How Ganesh Got an Elephant Head.” There are dozens of versions of the story from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and other...