How Online Dating Empowers Women Living with HIV: Nonfiction by Claire...
How Online Dating Empowers Women Living with HIV
by Claire Gasamagera
By the time we decided to meet in person, I had no idea how beautiful...
Never Forget Your First: Nonfiction by Paul A. Aguilar
Never Forget Your First
by Paul A. Aguilar
On June 5, 1981, just two weeks before my high school graduation and my eighteenth birthday, the CDC...
Traveling with Bill: Nonfiction by Paul J. Paturzo
Traveling with Bill
by Paul J. Paturzo
Bill is trying to buy a bike. A girl’s bike because it is easier to get on and off....
Yasss Child: Nonfiction by Dale Corvino
Yasss Child
by Dale Corvino
"Do you remember when we met?” Nico asked me over a FaceTime call. Nico had long ago lost his hair and...
The Custody Visit (1987): Nonfiction by Andrea Laiacona Dooley
The Custody Visit (1987)
by Andrea Laiacona Dooley
Seventh grade ended, and it was time to visit my father in Indiana. We’d last seen him at...
Left for Dead
I died three decades ago. In my early twenties. At the apex of the AIDS crisis in America in the 1980s. I’m long gone...
We Blessed: Nonfiction by John Boucher
We Blessed
by John Boucher
The following story is true. The names have been changed and composite characters created in order to protect the innocent, and...
“Save Tonight”: Nonfiction by Jennifer Sembler
Save Tonight
by Jennifer Sembler
We were standing among G’s drunken Italian friends who were singing an awful karaoke rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance...
Stella: Nonfiction by Hank Trout
Stella
by Hank Trout
I first met Jim the day I tried to pick up his boyfriend at the Polk Gulch Saloon.
The Gulch was a...
Magic and Mercury: Nonfiction by D.W. Anderson
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. Lovecraft
Eighth grade,...
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Well With My Soul – An Excerpt
It seemed as if everyone had been trying to keep this secret from me for as long as they could. But Samantha was tired...
