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Tag: nonfiction

“Alligators to Ashes” by Margaret S Mandell

Posted on June 6, 2022

Prologue to a Memoir Based on Love Letters to my Dead Husband By Margaret S. Mandell Sunday, December 10, 2017  My Dearest Love: October 2015. I am swimming laps alone […]

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“What Lay Beneath” by Christine Yount Jones

Posted on April 29, 2022

In the sweltering summer of 1966, I have a kitten who will not cooperate under the Arizona sun that glares at me from its cloudless sky and scorches all things […]

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“Dog Joy” by Judy Guilliams-Tapia

Posted on April 22, 2022

I am sitting on my meditation cushion, cross-legged and with eyes closed, warmed by the afternoon sun shining through the glass patio door in front of me.  The sound of […]

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“Trenches, Rats, and Watercolors” by Geoff Watkinson

Posted on February 28, 2022

My internship duties in the Fine and Decorative Arts Department of the British National Army Museum included organizing and documenting collections of photographs and rearranging shelves of original 17th and […]

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“Suburban Complaint #1988—Skunked” by Peter Dabbene

Posted on February 18, 2022

It was late at night, and the dog was barking—that is, until she suddenly voiced a squeal that made it sound like she’d been stabbed through the paw. I emerged […]

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“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

Posted on December 31, 2021

The prison is like a Victorian asylum, and carefully arranged. The grounds are tastefully laid out, each tree with its own hillock of greeenery and rock, paths intersecting over the […]

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“Running on Empty” by Melissent Zumwalt

Posted on October 8, 2021

June 1999 Bzz…Bzz…Bzz… My alarm sounds off, 2:00 a.m. A rude but expected awakening. Rolling onto my side, out of bed, I slump upright. From a pile of clothes stacked […]

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“A Season’s Breath” by Turi Ekirapa

Posted on August 27, 2021

I can’t sleep. Deep breath in. Boredom has hit me like a speck of bird poop that I can’t shake off. I’m doing that thing I did when I was […]

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The Metaworker Podcast – Meditations on Water by Stella Meadows

Posted on July 28, 2021

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, Elena, and Melissa talk to Stella Meadows about her brilliant nonfiction (as well as what makes brilliant nonfiction in general), identity, introspection, LGBT+ representation in art, […]

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The Metaworker Podcast – Kurt by Veronicca Lupinacci

Posted on July 28, 2021

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, Elena, and Melissa talk to Veronica Lupinacci about her wonderful poem, Kurt. We talk about nonfiction, how we remember people, and the general topic of learning to […]

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“The God of Good Things” by Snata Bose

Posted on September 3, 2018

The rain cut me a river wide enough to savour my numbered gardens— each with their own cloud. And in each I bred a different flower— a single rose: blood […]

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“Hatching” by Lena Silver

Posted on January 8, 2018

I was born an old soul they say, a quiet spectator mulling over muddled thoughts, about what I don’t know, perhaps a previous lifetime. I woke to bird sounds in […]

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“Tunnels, Caves, Helmets” by Edd Rose

Posted on August 21, 2017

I’ve probably been inside more than 500 tunnels, caves, souterrains, or underground passages in my entire life. My first home was a kind of cave, an organic one that was […]

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“Moments of Suffocating Dullness Interspersed with Violent and Near-suicidal Flashes of Excitement” by Edd Rose

Posted on July 3, 2017

The poet Charles Bukowski said “I don’t know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, what now?” […]

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“Six Wheat Stories” by Emily Ruth Taylor

Posted on November 21, 2016

1 My grandfather lived next to two wheat farmers. I secretly wished my grandfather was a wheat farmer. I would bicycle along the edge of their fields, picking stalks that […]

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“An Abstract Vision of Paradise” by Scott Thomas Outlar

Posted on July 18, 2016

     Into the infinite void where spaciousness calls out with a silent vibrating hum. Vibrant electricity gets shocked and magnetized by polar extremes to find coordinated balance at a […]

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“On Writing” by Marina Shugrue

Posted on February 15, 2016

The reason I write is a simple one: I’ve always done it, and I can’t imagine living my life without writing. When I think about writing, I cannot honestly say […]

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“The Woman Who Makes My Salad” By LilyAnne Rice

Posted on December 21, 2015

It occurred to me the other day that I don’t know your name even though you wear a name tag. I never even bothered to look at it. I think […]

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“Two Kisses” by Tadeu Bijos

Posted on December 14, 2015

I was five years old when I first kissed a girl. Her name was Juliana and it happened during my kindergarten recess, on the sand playground. Juliana was a redhead […]

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The Cycle of Writing by Nicole Mormann

Posted on September 14, 2015

The first time I tried to ride a two wheel bike, I remember my dad running alongside my six-year-old self as I swerved down the street, nearly sideswiping multiple parked […]

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