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Stories

Nonfiction
The Memory Theater
by Maria Hummel
We want to revisit what life was like before technology infected us.
Nonfiction
The Most Dangerous Book: Ulysses at One Hundred
by Bill Barich
His thoughts are never far from the erotic as he roams around Dublin.
Nonfiction
True Believers
by Bill Barich
Buster’s reasons for looking after Marco weren’t entirely altruistic.
Nonfiction
Trump: The Nature of His Game
by Bill Barich
Trump reminded me of the guys I grew up with on Long Island.
Nonfiction
The Nature of Nostalgia
by Wyn Wachhorst
Our visions of the world fade like the morning star, lost in the light of day.
Classics, Story of the Week
The Novel Démeublé
by Willa Cather
Amusement is one thing; enjoyment of art is another.
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The Plan of an English Dictionary
by Samuel Johnson
I look on Britain as a new world, which it is almost madness to invade.
Classics
The Practice
by William Carlos Williams
I lost myself in their minds: for the moment I actually became them.
Spring Contest Winners
The Ravages of an Unloved Life
by Tryphena L. Yeboah
I wait for the one thing that will change my life to arrive in the mail.
Nonfiction
The Romance of Elsewhere
by Lynn Freed
If you want to know what to write, ask yourself what obsesses you.
Nonfiction
When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
by Lynn Freed
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
Fall Contest Winners
The Second-Worst Rug My Father’s Ever Seen
by Spencer Wise
I hear myself giving advice in my father’s voice: Take the emotion out.
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Narrative Taste
The Spooning and the Fork
by Aleksandra Crapanzano
This would not be a wooing meal. I was cooking my man into submission.
Story of the Week
The Story of Sojourner Truth
by Bridget Quinn
Taller than most women, Sojourner Truth seemed to rise a little higher.
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The Teaching of Writing
by Kay Boyle
Young people have a gift for reviving freshness of language.
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Nonfiction
The Tucson Shootings: Words and Deeds
by Debra Hughes
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Nonfiction
Tilting at Windmills
by Dean Rader
Art, like writing, is an invitation to be surprised, to be open to revelation.
Essays
Tina Turner and My Father
by Deborah Paredez
Ike’s voice left behind on the shore as Tina plunges in again.
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Toleration
by Willie Morris
I am visited daily by unrelenting spirits evoking my accumulated flaws.
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Top Drama Will Be Renewed for Another Season
by Catherine Raven
Again, nature has written a good script. The skunk saga will continue.
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Tradition and the Individual Talent
by T. S. Eliot
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
Nonfiction
Type A
by Lynn Ahrens
My first true love was Underwood, my mother’s typewriter.
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Using a Cane
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
With cane in hand I felt a twinge of superiority to the crutch people.
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Valley
by Heather Brittain Bergstrom
They retire for the night, he to his bedroom and she to hers. What of it?
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W. H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y
by Cynthia Ozick
They rose before us under a halo of lights like figures in a shrine.
Nonfiction
Walking in Time
by Timothy Ferris
Once, when young and proud, I tried to grasp the enormity of the past.
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Wedlock, Gridlock, Liplock
by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
We’re tired. In bed, we hold hands. We watch TV. But do you want more?
Nonfiction
Whale Shark
by Rick Bass
We pull up alongside the great body. The fin marks the spot.
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When I Come to Be Old
by Jonathan Swift
When I come to be old, I resolve not to tell the same story over and over.
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When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing
by Irene Keliher
I had forgotten how to breathe, and then I learned again, all at once.