CREATIVE NONFICTION
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THE RAIN AND THE REVERIE by TULA SINGER (Cuba)
Issue 2.2 August 2020
My mother came into the kitchen with a blank face. I was sitting at the table, having a toast with olive oil and cheese and a glass of cold water. “We’re leaving,” she said, and sat on the chair across from me. “We’re going to move in with Ahmad in New York.”
A CONNECTION THAT SPANS SPACE AND TIME by JONATHAN HUANG (Taiwan)
My teacher Ms. Waterson wore glasses, and I kept an earnest gaze at them as I spoke to inhibit shaking. There was something quite different about her.
Issue 1.3 December 2019
A BRIEF HISTORY VIA EGG by MELISSA XU (United States)
Issue 1.2 September 2019
I grew up eating an excessive amount of eggs. Actually, that’s a little misleading. A more accurate statement would be that I grew up eating an excessive amount of fried rice, and thus in conjunction, ate an excessive amount of eggs.
THE FOOD THAT BINDS US by ROSALEEN SWEITI (United States)
Issue 1.2 September 2019
There's a sort of spell that falls over the dinner table as we wait for the athan to sound. Hungry souls glancing excitedly at their clocks, watching the minute hand slowly tick on. Sun setting below the vast horizon, every phone in the house goes off . . .
NATURE JOURNAL by ELIZABETH BUNTIN (United States)
Issue 1.1 April 2019
There is a certain inscrutability in the mercurial ebb and flow of life in the woods, an unassuming cadence that settles just beyond my naive circumspection. The dry sweep of the wind’s touch is fond and insidious in turns . . .