Females. Also known, culturally, as women. Appropriate undergarments are required to be worn with all uniform combinations. How do we define appropriate? You show us yours and we’ll know it when we see it. But, seriously, don’t show us yours.… more
Category Archives: CREATIVE NONFICTION
I Still Like The Way it Hurts
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Meredith AristoneI think that a lot of what I am, what I’ve always been, is inherently dirty, so I indulge the sickest parts of myself all at once, thinking that I’ll get so nauseous and so done with being me that they will leave my system in one fell swoop.… more
COMPLEXION Part I: The Bedrock
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Shae AshTrauma doesn’t skip generations, it just changes clothes—passed down like the red velvet cake recipe, sweetened to survive.… more
Cake And Ice Cream
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Jerome Newsome“Malcolm was taking away her cake and ice cream,” Barry said, edging me up. “He should have known she was gonna fight for it.”… more
A Window Ajar
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Jack P. Consiglio Jr.No one lets you in on the secret that when a loved dies, you have to relive it with each retelling. At this point, I’ve detached the meaning from it all. Now just a bedtime story I never forget to tell myself. Me, an ongoing audience of one.… more
I Peed on my Hand, Amen
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Sydney Ronquilloits just like peeing. it is peeing, what am i talking about, why am i narrating this? i started peeing, missed the cup, and realized i didn’t even know where it was coming from. i wasn’t sure whether to be disgusted or panicked… more
Swords
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Joey DamianoThat night I jammed my erect penis into the opening of Dad’s new wife’s minced garlic jar and put it back in the fridge, so I guessed we were even.… more
Collisions
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Ben DesboisWhen at a red light for too long I’d headbutt my father. Helmet to helmet, just to say hello. Pachycephalosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs around, headbutting throughout the late Cretaceous. That is until an asteroid hit the planet.… more
Ouzo
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Ilana LindseyTwenty years later I watched a music video and saw a girl flop into the back seat of a car and her legs dangled out the door and the whole thing came back and repeated in my head over and over for hours like the return of a chronic infection, like a burning, corrosive rash.… more
Believable Characters
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Christopher StevensonOh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna.… more
