Nonfiction Archives - So to Speak

My mother had a habit of calling early in the morning. The earlier the better. The phone would ring and every time I’d answer, I’d

Jessica Laurel Kane May 30, 2021

I was always braver at night—the middle of the night, like two or three o’clock, but fraught with the anxiety that the alarm would buzz

Megan D. Henson May 30, 2021

I balance the prefilled syringe on my bathroom counter and rub the spot of my soft lower abdomen with an alcohol wipe. I pinch myself

Kathleen Kelly May 30, 2021

I wake up to the voice of a stranger in our yard. Through the window, I see an older man inspecting our fifteen-year-old shriveled, diseased

Tara Isabel Zambrano May 30, 2021

Content warning: mentions of sexual assault I first met Jeannie Vanasco in the fall of 2016, about a year before the #MeToo movement surfaced on

Stephanie Buckley December 29, 2020

I often wrestle with how I form a sentence. I love certain sounds, certain units of syntax, and I tend to use them perhaps too

Sheila Black July 8, 2020

I followed the doctor down the yellow hall. He was explaining something but I wasn’t listening. I was thinking about the doorways we kept passing

Liz Asch Greenhill July 8, 2020

My Mum is driving. Her skinny body sinks into the leather seats as she takes control of the vehicle. When we turn onto the half-murrum,

by Nyokabi Kariuki January 1, 2020

I am 4 years old. Learning to read, in tears because the words don’t follow the rules. My mom patiently helps me pronounce the

By Rachal Marquez Jones December 9, 2019

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