Nonfiction Issue #4: Hope March 31st, 2020 March 31st, 2020 An Experimental Cure for Sorrow by Laura Sergeant  drive the dimpled rental car, a white fleck against the black ribbon of asphalt that mimics the sky; the highway is diamond-crusted sparkle, sullen charcoal or spilled ink, not unlike my mood. Clouds hang like raw wool: puffy unfinished edges. They arise without origin and move rapaciously. On the horizon, I spy sunlight leaking onto periwinkle folds of ...

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Nonfiction Issue #4: Hope March 31st, 2020 March 31st, 2020 Monkey’s Love by Sandi Parsons onkey was nearly born into my hands; her mum, Scruffy, was a rescue dog with huge trust issues. Repeatedly I had been warned that she would go away to birth her pups. Instead, Scruffy jumped into bed with me, nudging me with her nose until I woke. My eyes opened in time to see the first pup born. I held the ...

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Nonfiction Issue #4: Hope March 31st, 2020 March 31st, 2020 Dying Under an Overpass by Paul Rousseau t’s a late October afternoon, the sun plunging towards twilight. Earl’s tucked up under an overpass on Interstate 10. I’m his doctor doing a first “home” visit. He’s wrapped from the autumn chill by an old overcoat and a tattered blanket. A small barbeque grill glows with warmth. A plastic bottle, a cardboard box, and a roll of toilet ...

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Nonfiction Issue #4: Hope March 31st, 2020 March 31st, 2020 Vanishing Point by Art Hanlon here is something I am compelled to tell you. I think you would like to know. Maybe not. I’m driving my wife, Mary Ann, from our home on Bainbridge Island to the Kaiser Permanente clinic in Bellevue, Washington, for a routine procedure. A trip off-island by ferry to Seattle, then a 10-mile drive to Bellevue. As we get on the ferry, I’m ...

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Nonfiction Issue #5: Heroes July 21st, 2020 July 21st, 2020 NF Title by NF Author text TKAuthor Name author bio here

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Nonfiction Issue #4: Hope March 31st, 2020 March 31st, 2020 Nonfiction Letter from the Nonfiction Editor: The Art of Hope Dying Under an Overpass | Paul Rousseau Monkey’s Love | Sandi Parsons Vanishing Point | Art Hanlon Boobs and Bones | Frances Park A Pony Named Pixie | Allison Oesterle Because of Ryan | Wendy Kennar Learning to See with Grandpa | Rosemary Gemmell Dancing in the Dark | Susan Sparrow An Experimental Cure for Sorrow | Laura Sergeant

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Nonfiction Issue #3: Pain Continued December 31st, 2019 December 31st, 2019 Pluto Opposes the Sun by Patricia Fox hen I lived in Los Angeles for a few years, I had a meditation instructor who asked me when I was 38 how many years I had been in chronic pain. “On and off since I was fourteen or fifteen,” I responded. It was a question I would think a lot about in the next couple of years. I ...

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Nonfiction Issue #3: Pain Continued December 31st, 2019 December 31st, 2019 Happy Thoughts by Rosa Jordan y daughter is screaming. Again. Not exactly every hour on the hour, but more or less. Sometimes seventy minutes go by. Sometimes only fifty. Her husband and I lift her from the bed onto her feet. The scream turns to moans, then a groan, until the agonizing leg cramps subside and she mumbles, “Thank you.” We help her lie back ...

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Nonfiction Issue #3: Pain Continued December 31st, 2019 December 31st, 2019 Cadence of Life by Carole Hemmelgarn ne two, one two, the cadence of a runner’s stride. Inhale in, exhale out, pushing the lungs for air. I know the birds are chirping, leaves rustling, and wind blowing, but all I hear is the cacophony of screaming silence in my head. Pain is there every time my foot strikes the gravel, but I am numb. I no ...

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