Issue 67 / Summer 2018
67 / Starting Over
Hitting the reset button
Creative Nonfiction #67, “Starting Over,” is dedicated to the proposition that we are all—always—works in progress. In nine new essays, writers come to terms with fate, test the limits of resilience, flirt with disaster, fall down, and get back up again … like it or not.
Plus, encouraging vulnerability in the creative writing classroom; Patricia Hampl explores the “essay mind”; coming to terms with chronic illness; tiny truths; and more.
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What’s the Story #67
"We are all—always—works in progress"Completely Naked
A creative writing professor finds strength in allowing vulnerability in the classroomDaydream Believer
Patricia Hampl has not lost her sense of wonderThe Queen Signal
A colony (or a family) can recover from the loss of a queen bee ... but it takes timeThe Littlest Wren
A woman retreats to a lonely island to learn how to mother a spirit childThe Flaming Hair of Fate
A young American in Moscow wrestles with the big Russian Idea: "It is not your life"In the Midst of Winter
"Resilience" is the new buzzword, but are there traumas too difficult to overcome?The Dark Month
A father tries to let go of memories from deployments in AfghanistanRelevé: To Rise
Stand tall—shoulders back, tummy in—and lift yourself upThe Hotel Cadiz
It only takes a minute to destroy a marriageNo One’s a Virgin
A volunteer escort collects stories outside an Alabama abortion clinicWhen I Say Goodbye
Taking stock after cleaning out a childhood homeThe Wildebeest, or Everything and Nothing: The History of Pain
Learning to speak the language of illnessOn Mystery & Materiality
The "Starting Over" artist on reading, seeing, creating, and discovering