Creative Nonfiction

4 works

Writing·Nancy Jorgensen

Winter Looks Familiar Until It Breaks You

At the hospital, the nurse paused my husband’s gurney at the kissing corner, where, drug-sleepy, he tipped his head toward me for a peck. The nurse said I would see him in a few hours. I’d slid into November happy...

Writing·Dale Scherfling

Ray and Eva

Ray and Eva sang and yodeled their way on radio stations all through the Middle-Atlantic States, from Virginia through Ohio, in a two-door tan sedan, stopping to plink at bean cans with .22 rifles after they had dined from them...

Writing·Catalina Florina Florescu

Of rats and mice

Men were very fond of their time alone underground. They returned from work. They had supper. They went downstairs and talked about things their wives and kids would not be allowed to find out. It was dictatorship communism and we...

Writing·Dale Scherfling

Radiator Reading

Radiator ReadingWord Count 672 I sat in the little red-bricked library by the train tracks in Vermilion, Ohio, listening to the steam pipes in the radiator and watching engine smoke from the yards through an almost-frosted-over window while others did...