Nonfiction

Hope is a Strategy | Nonfiction

by TNSF | Mar 25, 2020 | Nonfiction, Vol. 3, Issue 9

The second time Obama Fever flared, I was going on three months in Wilmington, North Carolina, struggling to find a foothold in my new setting and not at all fitting in. I’d felt a sort of unbridled optimism during Obama’s 2008 campaign, from “Yes We Can” as a slogan...

Messiah | Nonfiction

by TNSF | Feb 26, 2020 | Nonfiction, Vol. 3, Issue 7

He’s benevolent. He’s right. No, righteous. He tells Melanie her beautiful son with the bright red curls and pink cheeks—the newest parishioner—is the cutest thing he’s ever seen. He shakes hands. He shakes his wife until her teeth crack together. He tells us, “In...

Obey | Nonfiction

by TNSF | Jan 29, 2020 | Nonfiction, Vol. 3, Issue 5

I tell Maurcio Obeja, taxista numero 82599, the address of where I am going. I say it correctly this time, street first, number after, Suipacha 637. “The six-hundred block of Suipacha is only three or four blocks down there,” he points to the right—to this octopus...

She and Shakespeare and I | Nonfiction

by TNSF | Jan 1, 2020 | Nonfiction, Vol. 3, Issue 3

Katherine. Bianca. The Old Widow. Petruchio. Baptista. Lucentio. Tranio. Gremio. Hortensio. Grumio. Biondello. Christopher Sly. (For a story all about how women are supposed to behave, there is a shocking lack of female representation.) When reading and directing...

Momma Taught Me to Hold a Grudge | Nonfiction

by TNSF | Sep 25, 2019 | Nonfiction, Vol. 2, Issue 23

I can always tell when Momma’s about to drop some juicy gossip. I don’t see her much now that I’m grown and am creating a home of my own, but when she visits it’s like nothing has changed. Recently, she was in town, and we were sitting on the porch in the late...

A View From the Sidewalk | Nonfiction

by TNSF | Aug 28, 2019 | Nonfiction, Vol. 2, Issue 21

Atlanta Writers Club Presents… Rick Bragg Prize for Nonfiction Winner: Harry Duke   A View From the Sidewalk   When I retired, I decided to open a sidewalk produce stand. I did not need the money. I just needed something to do and to feel good about...