Creative Nonfiction – Page 35

America’s Rights

The only thing as bad as the naïve, self-promoting bureaucratic, self-pitying, excuse-making, manipulative, overly idealistic, pretentious, system-sucking Democrat is the self-righteous, birth-entitled, Christian “Right,” “everyone-has-a-choice” preaching, bean-counting, in-denial-of-their social advantage, and blind to how the other half must live Republican. The only thing as great as the forward thinking, solution focused, empathetic, compassionate, self-sacrificing, social-class […]

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The Joys of a Good Morning’s Sleep

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Gary Walker / By Gary Walker

Here’s a thing about me: I hate getting out of bed in the morning. When I was young, my mother warned me to always be careful about using the word “hate.” It was a powerful thing, she told me. It could hurt others’ feelings and eventually turn me into a bitter person. It couldn’t be

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Treading Water

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Student Writings / By a featured contributor

It’s easier to sink than swim. That’s what they don’t tell you. But sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between sinking and floating stagnant. My father taught me that everything takes its time. No matter how great the desire to motor through every problem until every one of them is solved—a thankless dream by

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Pretty Petals: Reflections on Memorial Day

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Dana Zimbleman / By Dana Zimbleman

Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you

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Stanton Friedman: 1935-2019

Analysis, Biography, Creative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Writings / By a featured contributor

Searching for the Truth (Always Telling the Truth Means Never Having to Remember Anything) I’ve known and worked closely with Stanton Friedman for the past 23 years since I moved to Roswell and was a volunteer at the International UFO Museum from 1996 to 1998. I had heard and read about Stanton for many years

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Living on the Fringe: The Mysterious Power of Cults

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Gary Walker / By Gary Walker

The last few years have been a good time for makers of shows and films about religious cults. Not too long ago, Netflix released a 1994 documentary called Children of God. It’s about an Australian New Age cult called The Family, a group that became famous in the 1990s due to revelations of child abuse, illegal

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