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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Laughter Club

It’s not surprising that trauma is the number-one killer of people under forty, but it had never been so obvious to me before I worked at a hospital.

By Peter Mountford June 2015
Readers Write

Being Alone

Running away, getting married, eating at the food court

By Our Readers March 2014
Fiction

My Sister, The Writer

My sister is a writer. She writes terrible things about me. She thinks she is telling the family secrets, but we all think she’s hysterical.

By Jenny Bitner January 2005
Readers Write

Eavesdropping

Brothers, no-kidding eyes, bean holes

By Our Readers April 2001
Fiction

For The Man Upstairs

Without hesitating, I carried the pie out into the hallway, and climbed the flight of stairs to the third floor, where I knocked boldly on the man’s door. Not a sound from inside. I breathed deeply; the air seemed thinner up here. While I waited, I examined the way the purple syrup had bubbled over the browned pastry. After a minute I set the pie down before the threshold and turned to leave.

By Margaret Hutton June 1998
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Denial

How old is the habit of denial? We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know. The public was told that old Dresden was bombed to destroy strategic railway lines. There were no railway lines in that part of the city. But it would be years before that story came to the surface.

By Susan Griffin October 1994
Readers Write

The God Of My Childhood

Killing God; discovering orgasms; feeling connected by a giant, invisible web linking all things

By Our Readers July 1991
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

A Few Lessons They Won’t Forget

The Disgrace Of Modern Schooling

While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. I intend no irony here. These are the things I teach, these are the things you pay me to teach.

By John Taylor Gatto May 1991