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The Thing About Grief

February 21, 2021 By Len Kuntz

Last month, my son came to visit and was home for all of an hour when he received a devastating phone call, news that would send him into the kind of hysterics I’ve never witnessed. He was half shrieking, half screaming. He was punching walls. Hyperventilating. Pacing in broken circles. Mashing fists into his face. […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: essay, Grief, Len Kuntz, nonfiction, Writing

On Pink Fluff and Other Notable Traditions

December 7, 2020 By Epiphany Ferrell

I’ve spent plenty of holidays alone. One of my best holiday memories is the year I was first truly independent and on my own, riding my horse with a foot of snow already on the ground and more of it coming in giant, floury flakes, on a quiet Christmas morning. It was like being inside […]

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Pushcart Prize Nominations

November 28, 2020 By Announcement

This year’s nominees: The River at Dawn by Evan James Sheldon Those Who Grow Horns by Miranda Williams Beehive by Karen Gonzalez-Videla July, 1944 by Shaemus Spencer Two Moons and a Hummingbird by Jo Varnish Hester’s Mom by MFC Feeley

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: Evan James Sheldon, Jo Varnish, Karen Gonzalez-Videla, MFC Feeley, Miranda Williams, Pushcart nominations, Pushcart Prize, Shaemus Spencer

The Thing About Loneliness

October 29, 2020 By Len Kuntz

Loneliness is a trick your mind plays on you. It’s crafty and insidious, and it doesn’t like to lose. Loneliness is also a little bit scary. It’s actually a truth, not trickery at all. It both corrodes and guts you when you’re most empty. It laughs while deflating you, even when you had no air […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: creative nonfiction, essay, Len Kuntz, loneliness, nonfiction, Writing

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

October 21, 2020 By Epiphany Ferrell

Ah, Halloween, my favorite holiday. It comes in autumn, a season meant for melancholy, for pensiveness, a time of year when you can believe the veil between the worlds is thin. The nights are cold in most of this country in October, with clear skies sprinkled with so many stars, you’ve never noticed before how […]

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The Thing About Books

August 12, 2020 By Len Kuntz

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how […]

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The Thing About Grief

February 21, 2021 By Len Kuntz

Last month, my son came to visit and was home for all of an hour when he received a devastating phone call, news that would send him into the kind of hysterics I’ve never witnessed. He was half shrieking, half screaming. He was punching walls. Hyperventilating. Pacing in broken circles. Mashing fists into his face. […]

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