Category: Creative Nonfiction
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THE HUMORS by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
1. Today I am thinking about the difference between illness and predisposition, or personality. Or rather the dissolution of difference, the becoming-illness of the disposition. If, as Aristotle says, the melancholic is possessed of too much black bile and air, what should happen is bad sex, but what happens instead is that someone places a…
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DIMINUTIVES by Gabriela Valencia
Like most divine relics I own, I have no memory of where my keychain came from. Was it college, high school, earlier than that? Joined in a loop to my home, my shed, my office, is a tarnished pewter scroll with a miniature relief of the Antigua Basilica de Guadalupe, windows tiny dashes below its…
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THE PLUME by Susan Neville
From the outside, the Garden City Church of Christ looks like any small rural church. The building is just large enough for a sanctuary, a small vestibule where the greeters stand, an office in the back, and a basement where the choir practices and where Sunday school classes and church dinners are held. Four…
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TWO AMERICAS, TWO POETICS by Kate DeBolt
On November 24, 2014, my Facebook News Feed forked: all at once I was reading two wholly different kinds of perspective, like dispatches from parallel dimensions. I remember because I was laid up for days with a fever-dream flu…