Category Archives: Memoir

Backs to the Future

“Nobody acknowledged it as we clowned around for the cameras, but his absence was unavoidable, a blemish on our collective accountability. Our friend wasn’t there, but he was with us, his story an uncomfortable reminder of how human we actually were.” Continue reading

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Something Happened

Back in Hagerstown, Md, Michael Gonzales finds something like the African-American Last Picture Show waiting for him… Continue reading

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Light Sleepers

An American in France during the Bush years, Nathaniel Missildine awaits the birth of his child. Continue reading

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I Have Tasted My Father’s Blood…And So My Tongue Begins to Burn

“His life sentence is to glioblastoma multiforme, terminal brain cancer, and yet he defies it over the last seven years with the Nietzschean willpower of a Babylonian god who refuses—won’t do it!—to recognize a world beyond the fertile crescent.” Continue reading

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What I’d Tell You If I Could

Litsa Dremousis records her thoughts on the fourth anniversary of a devastating loss. Continue reading

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Loud Talkers & Slow Walkers: A Curmudgeon’s Diary

Tom Gualtieri’s inner curmudgeon has his day in New York. Continue reading

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Here Now Then There

Ruined mansions, a couple of bars, and some roving bears: Deirdre Day describes a self-imposed small-town exile after a serious accident. Continue reading

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