Creative Nonfiction

Cool Enough, For the Moment It was the spring of my senior year in high school, and my friends and I were so desperately cool...

False Alarm Midtown, Manhattan, September 12, 2001  Floor 31 I’m going to die now, aren’t I? I’m going to die right here, amongst strangers. “There are reports of a...

Draw Two Circles, So Joined In a boy’s hands, a trumpet, played to the open window at an hour of seven. I can’t tell you...

How to Kill a Mouse The cat emerges from beneath the couch, between my feet, with a mouse in his teeth. It is his fourth...

Cathode Sometimes, my memory is like an old television set, turned on after the show has started.  The screen takes a few minutes to warm...

Drinking the OED I lose some days to the dictionary. On these blessed, dangerous days, I wake up late, and, post coffee and breakfast burrito,...

Crazy Rosalee had just pulled me out onto the porch, away from everyone else, away from Anne. Even though Rosalee is Anne’s mother, Anne almost...

Job Description Job Title: Mental Health Worker Job Code/ Req#: 1234 Department/ Group: Special needs child psychiatric unit Travel Required: n/a Level/Salary Range: Low. You will work for administrators who have never worked on the...