Creative

Nonfiction

February Contributors

Chel Campbell, Ari Cordovero, Billie J Daniel, Christie Goodman, L.F. Graubard, Audrey Hollenbaugh, Uma Jagwani, Sonali Kolhatkar, Catherine Lutz, and Josh Price

February Highlights

  • the bug

    by Catherine Lutz

    “Winter has had its way with the bush on which the berry hangs, denuding it of its leaves and stripping the fruit of any seeming life.”

  • the brownsville code

    by L.F. Graubard

    “Months blurred. Death moved on little cat feet—alarms, gurgles, a gasp at 3 a.m. I pushed wheelchairs and watched bodies fail in slow motion.”

  • invisibility

    by Josh Price

    “The dark becomes morning and I catch myself staring at the sun. I pull out my eyes, to keep them from burning.“

  • when it rains

    by Christie Goodman

    “Blood sprayed from the wound in her head, like a fire hydrant, soaking my face and chest in deep, hot red.”

  • whiskey and words

    by Sonali Kolhatkar

    “My childhood memories of Dubai were marred by Baba’s whiskey and words. He liked his drink served in a cut crystal glass with exactly two cubes of ice, topped off with water. He would go through an entire bottle a week. By himself.”

  • my dad wants me to listen to more pink floyd

    by Audrey Hollenbaugh

    “I used to have this idea in my head that healing from my past would mean I could suddenly do all the things I want to do and feel perfectly fine…I’ve realized that it isn’t quite like that.”