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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

Does This Book Spark Joy?

March 4, 2019 By Epiphany Ferrell

At about 2 a.m., my life partner, Tim, smelled smoke. Our main source of heat is a wood stove. He went outside and looked at the chimney, smoking lightly as it should be. He checked the exterior walls near the chimney for signs of heat. Nothing. There was a faint curl of smoke where the […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: book, book collection, books, creative nonfiction, Epiphany Ferrell, essay, house fire, nonfiction

Dos and Don’ts During the Loooong Primary Season

February 20, 2019 By Christian Scholer

We are moving closer and closer to the kickoff of the 2020 election. This seems almost unbelievable because I am not sure all of us have recovered from 2016. So far, A LOT of candidates are jumping in feet first. In all likelihood, you’re going to have several friends, family members, and/or co-workers planning to […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: candidates, Christian Scholer, creative nonfiction, essay, nonfiction, primaries, suggestions

The Thing About Friendships

August 18, 2018 By Len Kuntz

Is meaningful ones can be hard to come by, and they take work if they are to remain meaningful for any extended period of time. Me, I live in the boondocks.  On a lake.  There are eagles and beavers.  Lots of trees.  Deer.  It’s beautiful here, but it’s also very rural and, for the most […]

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

The Thing About Birthdays

June 17, 2018 By Len Kuntz

It’s my birthday, but the clouds are offended again because of something I’ve said or thought. Their bellies are full of dark-sick, gauzy vomit, pushing away the sky which doesn’t remember I’m nine today. People are talking about the moon, how there are men on it for the first time, but people have told me […]

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Glass Boys

June 5, 2018 By Len Kuntz

I’m an old man now, but I was a boy once, and I saw things—adults with backward rollercoaster eyes, muddy backhoe faces, steel wool fingers, javelin forearms that could tack anything they wanted to a wall, a floorboard, a bed board, or a rusty bedspring creaking for rescue. I was a glass boy then, blown […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: childhood, creative nonfiction, glass boys, Len Kuntz, nonfiction, Writing

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Best Small Fictions Nomations

January 21, 2023 By Brett Pribble

The Storming of Rome by Slawka G. Scarso Juicy Fruit by Katie Coleman You Were Only Waiting for This Moment to Arrive by Kathy Fish Eddie by David James Poissant Something Fierce and Unnamed by Tommy Dean

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