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Pen Names: Are They Really for You?

May 24, 2020 By Karen Gonzalez-Videla

I was twelve years old when I decided to write. I pretended to tidy up my backpack until every other student in my seventh-grade AVID class rushed out of the door. The room emptied quickly, until Ms. C and I were the only ones left. “You’re gonna be late to your next class,” Ms. C […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: essay, identity, Karen Gonzalez-Videla, nonfiction, pen name, pen names, Writing

The Thing About Missing

May 17, 2020 By Len Kuntz

The sad truth is we’re all missing someone. And we’re hoping that, wherever they are, they’re missing us right back. —Randomgirl202 There are a lot of things I miss right now. But what I miss most is my friends. Seeing them in person. Hugging them. Loving them, face to face, where some kind of screen […]

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

The Thing About Crying

April 29, 2020 By Len Kuntz

“Take your hands out of your pockets, let the water run, don’t worry about tomorrow when yesterday is gone…”—CAAMP, “Of Love and Life” I haven’t necessarily been counting, yet I know it’s been sixteen hours and thirteen minutes since I last cried. In a way that feels like a lifetime, a lifeline, or an accomplishment, […]

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

Never Have I Ever

April 26, 2020 By Natasha Samreny

Never have I ever Enjoyed mini golf That’s what it says on my Hinge dating profile. That’s what it said on my Hinge profile. The one I made around the time this epidemic slipped into a pandemic into #QuarantineAndChill #StayHomeStaySafe, and #PandemicPissingContestAnxietyDepressionFaceButMakeItFashion. I have nothing against dating apps. They’re fun little toys that can help […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: Dating, essay, Hinge, Natasha Samreny, nonfiction, online dating, Writing

COVID-19 and the Writing Process

April 22, 2020 By Epiphany Ferrell

I feel a little bit like the Burgess Meredith character Henry Bemis in The Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last.” In that episode, Bemis, an avid reader, finally has time to read to his heart’s content when he – and the local library – are the lone survivors of a nuclear war. However, just […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: COVID, Covid-19, Epiphany Ferrell, essay, nonfiction, productivity, Writing, Writing process

Miracles in the Time of COVID

April 4, 2020 By Bethany DuVall

When my daughter was fifteen months old, we survived a plane crash. Doctors and the media called her the miracle baby. Airlines advise parents to hold children her age in their laps, even though they know that as far as science is concerned, there is not a way to prevent a lap-sitting baby from becoming […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: Bethany DuVall, COVID, Covid-19, essay, inconvenience, miracles, nonfiction, pandemic, Writing

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Best Small Fictions 2022 Nominations

January 6, 2022 By Brett Pribble

“Crucifix, FL” by JR Walsh “Nature” by Ross McMeekin “Johnny Kubecka” by Jo Varnish “Broken Keys” by Jennifer Fliss “Waiting on the Train to Glenwood” by Evan James Sheldon

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