Nonfiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Coping by Melissa Brand t sixteen, I devoured books about troubled children—teens breaking with reality, kids like me, suffering and healing. The Best Little Girl in the World. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. The Bell Jar. Ms. Hammaren, the school librarian, aware of my interest in psychology, fed me these books. At lunch, when I wasn’t at home unable to get out ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 How to Grieve by Jennifer Ng e thankful that Po Po, your maternal grandmother, passed away before the pandemic begins. Stay silent as others worry about their vulnerable family members as COVID-19 spreads across the world. Feel small whenever you’re told, “Speak up.” Meaning that they couldn’t hear you. Or maybe they never noticed you speaking in the first place. Hear your father say, “She’s dying” ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 No Tears Would Come by Tom Willemain t was so, so cold, and his wife was dying right in their bed. For weeks she’d insisted it was ok, it would go away. He pretended too, as long as he could. The wind rattled the windows, but she herself kept perfectly still. Any movement meant vertigo. The winter sunlight was pale and frigid, doing nothing to ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Turtle Woman by Bethanie Gorny followed the sales lady over to the counter to finalize my tile purchase for a small bathroom renovation project. I handed her my credit card, and she began filling out paperwork so that my contractor could pick up the tile for me. I decided to sit down on the stool provided while I waited, something I’ve done countless ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Springhill Support Group by Kaitlyn Johnson lastic tables and plastic chairs perched side by side in the hotel lobby—a bleak offering in dining choices within a mile of HeartCare Memorial, complete with cracked surfaces and unidentifiable goop smeared across the white-and-gray-speckled tabletops. Only the bar situated at the side of the lobby made it clear this was an adults-only space. Here, employees nodded with ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Progress and Evolve by Nancy Wahler nnie thought coming to the lake house might make it better. This place had saved her after the divorce ten years ago and the loss of her son to cancer five years later. Sixty-five years of good memories. The lake magic didn’t seem to be working this time. Maybe because this time it was her fault. God was punishing ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Snow Days by Cathleen Davies sabelle was walking to the bus stop when she noticed the gravel glittering with frost beneath her. She placed her feet carefully, one in front of the other, keeping her eyes on those shiny, black, buckled boots, her white socks warm and snug over woolen tights. They’d be soaked through by the end of the day. Isabelle never managed ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Ode to a Holy Dead Guy by Alvaro Adizon 1 ather Peter died in April 2020, more than a month into the COVID-19 lockdown, but it was not because of COVID. Not directly. Personally, I believe it was because he became so bored by the isolation we had imposed on him that he decided to just die, because the life he was living was not ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 How to Love Your Cat and Subsequently the World by Sandi Sonnenfeld ake up for the twenty-third consecutive day with a stuffy nose and sore throat. With your eyes still closed, evaluate your symptoms, your body’s various ails and pangs to identify those that signify illness and those your body typically experiences as it comes back into itself after a long night’s sleep. Note ...
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