Renée E. D’Aoust/Creative Nonfiction

Renée E. D’Aoust/Creative Nonfiction

The Clear Cut by Rob Hurson  *** The Line of No Trees     by Renée E. D’Aoust     Before the clear cut. And after. Forest not as Dalí, but as Rothko. Not spirals of possibility despite excessive overgrowth, but flat-flat hopelessness with coded...
Laurie King-Billman/Creative Nonfiction

Laurie King-Billman/Creative Nonfiction

Navajo country – summer 2000 – Patrick Nouhailler © byNouhailler Sailing Past Shiprock by Laurie King-Billman   “This part of 666 creeps me out,” Martha said. We were nearing the border between Ute and Navajo country, Colorado and New Mexico. No cars,...
Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by 916237 (Pixabay) * * A GOOD DECISION   by Tonya K. Dale     I know why the dog next door cries at night.   He’s the black-and-white mutt, the shaggy prisoner of a fenced-in portico…four feet by four feet. Cement floor.   No one is...
Stephanie Golisch/CNF

Stephanie Golisch/CNF

v You Come from a Beautiful Country by Stephanie Golisch   Ten in the morning and the sun broils my dark hair. I trail behind my husband, Chris, and our friend, Frank. We hike in silence through the meadows that skirt the mountains in the Guangxi province of...