by Jaime Stathis Just uphill from a thin sliver of Connecticut coastline stood the beach house. A simple 1950s ranch, it didn’t look particularly beachy. With its vinyl siding and …
Category: Non-Fiction
Return of the Dinosaurs
by Bushra Naqi The virus stomped its foot, manically, from pillar to post, into every crevice, parish, city, country; an inanimate virus, audaciously dug deep into our human bodies, stirring …
Not in this Country
by Léonie Rosenstiel My mother, who’d spent her last years under the control of a commercial guardian, had made me promise her that I’d tell what happened. After my father …
Four Forty-Four
by Pamela Jacobs A medication I’m prescribed requires being taken on an empty stomach—a tricky proposition for an all-day eater. Me and an empty stomach really aren’t a thing. It’s …
Party of One
by Léonie Rosenstiel “I’m going stir crazy! I don’t know if I can take any more of this.” Two weeks into quarantine, my friend’s discomfort leaped out of the …
The Woman in My Apartment
by Alexandra Carmichael I’m trapped in my apartment with a woman who I’m not particularly fond of. We’ve been quarantined together for two months. My dislike has spread like a …