nonfiction
(to read any of the stories below, click the story's title.
By Dorothee LangLakes of Pain“For years and years, the lake area was a test zone for a car company. They drove tanks here. Into the lakes. Through the meadows. Past the trees that held the nests of the grey herons. And it was those grey herons that made a difference.” |
By Priyanka SachetiThe Dead Dragonfly“Does anyone not notice the irony? Living people causing a dead mummy to vanish into nothingness, turning it into dust, erasing the last physical reminder of a being that once lived—breathed, thought, dreamt, loved, ate, drank, and walked.” |
By Richard WileRequiem in Stones“Long before Columba arrived, however, Iona was home to Druid and other pagan religions. Some books call this island a "thin place," where the connection between God and humanity, the eternal and the temporal, is most apparent.” |
