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Unit Test

November 25, 2022/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2023 / Rebecca Burke
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Ghost Birds

June 4, 2022/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2022 / Karin Hedetniemi

We’re erasing the whiteboard. We’re not going to drive the Pacific Coast Highway as planned. We won’t hike a trail in the Olympic Mountains, beachcomb for agates on the Oregon coast, or spot migrating shorebirds.

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Cataclysms

December 3, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2022 / Julia F. Green

On the day that Christine Blasey Ford testified about being assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, we found Newton, our nineteen-year-old cat, cowering behind the toilet. Each time we reached for him, he recoiled.
My husband adopted Newton before he and I met. . .

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H'Abigail Mlo, Author HeadshotPhoto Credit: Christopher Lomiguen

Pleiku

December 2, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2022 / H'Abigail Mlo

I awake to the shrill of chickens, nature’s alarm clock. My two sisters, with whom I’m sharing a bedroom and two bare mattresses, retreat under their blankets like hermit crabs to their shells. Avoiding the hazy dawn that spills out of the window and into the room. . .

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David DiNisco

Regarding the Highchair You’re Selling on Facebook

May 20, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2021 / Liz Breen

Crazy because ten years has gone by and still, I’m not as old as you were when we dated. Would you call what we did “dating”? I used to begin every story about us with “When I was 18, I dated my teacher,” but now I find myself saying, “We had a two-year relationship.” But even that word —“relationship”— it feels too— what?

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Year, Make, Model

May 19, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2021 / Laura Seldner

There is an absence of what I have grown accustomed to: tension, uncertainty, fear. I am acutely aware of how, next to my Uncle, the world is a good place with good people and I am not something that has already been broken. I am eight-years-old and tired all the time. [. . .]

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Imagine Yourself a Strained Body Breaking to Recover

December 7, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Matt Colangelo

I am floating down an open, empty stretch of I-95, listening to the stock market crash, trying to figure out what I am doing—why I am going home—to take care of whom. It is the twelfth of March, and I have decided that I am coming back for my brother.[…]

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Xinjiang—A Beautiful Place

December 6, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Daien Guo

This is not my story to tell. I was only a brief visitor to this land. Today, I read that the old town of Kashgar has been torn down and modernized. The Id Kah Mosque is closed to both visitors and worshippers. The city is rife with police checkpoints, and security cameras with facial recognition technology are installed at every street corner.[…]

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Surrogate Memory

December 5, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Yasmine Eve Lucas

What children of survivors add to the gift is a moral imperative of conveying knowledge; feelings of being dwarfed by the past; guilt at being alive; and kinship with other descendants.[…]

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White Voice (Un)Masked

December 4, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Bill Marsh

The white male body that exists and speaks—and shops and wears a mask (or doesn’t)—can also wield a gun, and kneel, and kill, as Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin proved when he crushed the life out of George Floyd.[…]

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Those You Neglect

December 2, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Randy William Santiago

He ain’t my favorite person, she’d say, but he is your father. A simple truth he ignored, never once attempting to bridge the gap. Lived ten minutes away, worked even closer, but he was like a ghost, an apparition, someone we fabricated a connection with but who would ultimately vanish.[…]

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On Twerking and Writing

June 13, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Rois M. Beal

As anyone who has ever heard a black comic perform or listened to a rap song knows, we don’t do
humblebragging. When you are the bomb, you simply say so.[…]

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Ambiguity

June 12, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Storey Clayton

So, if I feel so alienated from gender, why should it be such a determining factor in who I would like? I can’t imagine making any woman who likes men happy. Wouldn’t we all be better off just liking everyone?[…]

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Monstera Deliciosa Variegata: Grief and the Search for a Rare Houseplant

June 11, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sarah Hoenicke

My feelings didn’t shift, but my body did. I knelt beside you on our bed and brought your head to my shoulder. I repeated her message. But you already knew. You had seen my face change.[…]

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A Life in Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Forty Songs

June 10, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Pat Hulsebosch

The small FedEx box arrived in DC bearing an unlikely return address: Peter C. Hulsebosch III, Houston, TX. Surely this wasn’t from my brother, the brother who’d once told me he would never send a card, much less a gift, because then I’d get used to it […]

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42,844

June 9, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Megan Lea

Simian Immunodeficiency Virus adapted to live in the body of a person, and then the window was pried
open: open to spread through the villages of Cameroon, and then the rest of Africa, and then the world
beyond, until it found its way to a club in the suburbs of New Orleans and into the lifeblood of the man
who lived next door, my uncle.[…]

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Returning to My Father’s Kitchen

June 8, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Monica Macansantos

I take solace in knowing how to make my father’s chicken adobo, because when he died in 2017, it was one of the many dishes he had made for us that wasn’t lost to us forever with his sudden passing[…]

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The Story of the Family Samovar

June 7, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Nadja Maril

During childhood I heard the stories about the shtetls and the pogroms that escalated to become the
Holocaust where 6 million Jews—two thirds of the Jewish population in Europe— were killed for no other
reason than for being Jewish.[…]

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Decay

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Claire Boyer
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All of Us Are in Pieces

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Nhung An
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Picasso This and That

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Rey Armenteros
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What I Know to Be True

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdis Marzooghian
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The Many Uses of Safety Pins

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Anu Kandikuppa
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Jedi Mind Tricks of an Anxious Girl

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Autumn Shah
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The Eastern Spadefoot

November 25, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Robin Gow
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To a Starving Body

November 25, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Shreya Vikram
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Hickeys, Lexapro, and Eggo Waffles: On Being Thirteen

May 30, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Courtney Cook

The hospital walls were stark white and we weren’t allowed to have pens: they were on the list of things we could potentially hurt ourselves with, alongside other items like shoelaces and earrings. I was thirteen and doodling with Crayola markers on construction paper. Even with the “non-toxic” declaration written on its label in the […]

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Lessons in Language

May 26, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Kristen Gaerlan

In the middle of an IKEA showroom, I agonized over the transition between two sentences. I was wrestling with a second-grade assignment on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While I knew any seven-year-old could cobble together two statements about Dr. King, bridging together two thoughts about his achievements with one seamless transition proved to be […]

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She’s Not There

May 25, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Ona Gritz

“Your mother’s your slave,” a girl in the playground taunted. “Is not!” I insisted, but even at six years old, I recognized the truth in her words. My mom pulled socks on my feet while I lay in bed to save me from the shock of cold tile, read to me in the bathroom when […]

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Fear of Prayer: An Atheist’s Lament

May 23, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Melissa Knox

Josef didn’t realize how little I thought about religion—how complete my lack of belief. “Are you religious?” I asked on one of our New York subway trips. I wonder now why I asked. I didn’t have the slightest premonition. I was making a joke, teasing, the way I might have said, “So, are you secretly […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

Today’s course:

The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Confessions of a Birthday Person

November 4, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Tonight’s bites:

Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

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I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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