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Review: The Art of Misdiagnosis by Gayle Brandeis
Reviewed by Hannah StratonGayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write and the poetry collection: The Selfless Bliss of the Body, as well as the novels The Book...
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CRAFT: Answering the Call: On Writing About Trauma and Loss by Nicole Breit
Love, loss, heartbreak: it’s the theme embedded in so many memorable works of art. It’s the story that most often appears in the work of my students, and it’s one I return to again and again in my own...
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WRITING LIFE: More Than I Dreamed Of, Barely Enough by Sara Petersen
I am learning how to say the words “I’m a writer” without effacing the words with a shoulder shrug or an apologetic smile or a rushed justification of daring to label myself as such. I am trying to get...
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The Improbability of Me (and You) by David R. Bowne
I try to live a life without regret. Not that I haven’t made mistakes, because I have, large and small. I just take the view that all events, the good, the bad, the vibrant, and the bland, have...
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To the Lighthouse by Christopher Maher
But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of...
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Women Without Names by B. Richard Wright
By all accounts, the fall patrol went well. USS Denver (LPD 9) left its home port of Sasebo, Japan on September 19, 2008, with three other ships and headed south. The ship’s first scheduled liberty...
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Swimming With Headscarf Ladies by Kirsten Voris
Too sick to leave home, I flop in my sheets like something beached and dying. After weeks of illness, I pine for fresh air. An apartment with a bathtub. Water. I need to swim. I doze off and fall into...
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Vee Dubya by Christy Lynch
The Volkswagen Beetle is the most manufactured car in the world. It was produced from 1938 to 2003, yielding over 21,500,000 cars that were assembled in 15 different countries over 65 years. That’s...
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Water and Light by Hannah van Didden
1. I smooth her feathers from neck to wing and wonder if there is a definitive way to tell that a chicken is dead. Do you hold a mirror to its beak? Do you try to find its heart? Death can’t be in the...
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Who By Fire by Evelyn Krieger
Most Memorable: December 2017 After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. ~1Kings 19:12 For the Eternal our G-d is a devouring...
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