Kristine Langley Mahler is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Associate Nonfiction Editor at Pithead Chapel who has recently published essays...
Aborted Essay on Plums
What abortions are these Essays! What errors, what ill-pieced transitions, what crooked reasons, what lame conclusions! How little is made out,...
Blackberries
After graduate school, I threw away nearly everything I’d written, certain that I’d moved on. Now that some years have passed, I’ll spend forty...
Funeral FAQs
Question: Should we play a hymn when viewing the folded flag?Answer: Forgiveness is not a window full of fingerprints wiped clean.Question: What arrangement...
Dinosaur Gardens
Every family’s story is the same in departure. We visited every summer, a pilgrimage to primordial creatures fashioned from lumber, concrete, and obsession....
