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Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

ANGELS

Amy Griffin

I used to be scared of angels and the way they keep records of your thoughts, because there's things they know that I'd be unequivocally ashamed of. But at length I've come to the conclusion that all ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Redrock

Hyrum Jones

The red rock swirls around me. It is sedentary and yet it has what my artist friends refer to as movement, line of action, directional motion. The soft, water worn contours are hard as the stone they ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

Count to Three

Isabella Zentner

The hills slipped easily under our wheels.

Sometimes you get this feeling, an itch. A kind of restlessness that wants to crawl out from under your skin. I think this feeling is familiar to most ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

The Glove Says "I Love You"

Taylor Dalton

The ball in the glove stretches out in front of me, papers strewn below, around and beyond it, the sweat stains on the sides hint at long hours and tired fingers, sore palms under the palms that lined ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

Aphorisms on Memes

Kelly Burdick

The impulse to save a meme to your phone is the same force that drives cats to collect hair ties and bottle caps under the couch.
In the case of both the world and memes, all things tend toward ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

Castles in the Sky

Aliah Eberting

Castles in the sky.

Airy fairy, sugar-spun, cotton candy webs that lace the air.

Everyone has one. Some people have a dozen. I have seven.
When I line them up side by side they ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Stars and Silence

Megan McMahon

On that day there was silence. The kind of silence that you not only hear, but that you feel, you taste, and you see. It’s so thick that every step you take is in slow motion like you are trudging ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

The trend of K’s in India

Sohel Vohra

K-drama and K-pop are not so new term for the millennials. But what is K-drama? It is Korean televisions series, or dramas which are popularly known as K-drama. If you ask a teen about K-pop o ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

Changing What it Means to be Human

Silvyr Dragøn

“Times change,” has become an increasingly true statement in the last century. Microwaves now allow people to cook food in minutes when it once would have taken hours. Astronauts have left the earth’s ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

The Dam Breaks

Mia Lucia

Three teens sit in a Plymouth van half past midnight, awaiting the judgement of a cop. There’s a blond—a lanky, pretty guy with a pouf of hair and amusement in his eyes. There’s a brunette—curvy ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Delayed Bachelor

Juliet Logan

INT. Montreal Airport - DAY

OLIVIA MOORE, 24, is anxiously sitting at Gate C. Her knee is bouncing and she is biting her nails. She looks at the giant clock behind her. It reads 11:05.
...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

Watery Shadows

Ruth Thomas

I can hear bell towers and train whistles from my window.

Sometime during high school, my memories started to get murkier. It got harder to remember what I’d eaten last or what I had learned in ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Breaking Even

Ben Sheffer

I start the chess tournament by entering the skittles room, which unfortunately, is nothing like a rainbow. The skittles room is just a lounge with a water dispenser and is not a candy dispensary. I ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

A Christmas Story

McKade Kerr

I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing. It was still dark outside, and I wasn’t fully awake yet, but I answered my phone and heard a familiar voice. “It snowed over a foot last night! We need you ...  [+]