We at Hippocampus Magazine are delighted to announce the winners of our first contest, the Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction. A big congratulations to our winners! The post Edi...
If I were the type to write happy endings, I’d end with the four-foot, six-inch fence. It stood in the center of the brightly lit indoor ring of Cedar Lodge Farm, a show barn in Stamford, Conne...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/x-rays-are-my-souvenirs-by-susan-rukeyser/
“Why is there a bed?” Dad was under the impression he’d been hired to work as a doctor again, although Mom had explained to him, many times, that he would be living here now. Obviously he...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/doors-that-open-shut-by-lydie-raschka/
The first time I heard the story of the opera Aida, I was sitting on the screened porch with my grandfather. Out beyond the screen, the fireflies sporadically lit the velvet darkness. On the porc...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/verismo-by-vicki-mayk/
My father and I stop near the fountain in the middle of a plaza. Baobabs and coconut trees lean over us and we are arm in arm as if we have been walking like this our whole lives. We sit on a ben...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/the-echo-of-a-fall-anika-fajardo/
Sometimes leaving a person alone is an act of love. I was riding on a bus along Christopher Street when I looked out the window, past the gingko trees that were just turning yellow and dropping...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/outside-by-deirdre-sinnott/
We lived, my grandmother and I, next to the line that separated white from black. There was, in that time and place, no legitimate mixing of the societies. If I looked west from my yard along Bay...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/drums-of-autumn-by-bill-mullis/
When I was in college, as a naive twenty something, I imagined a literary agent to be on par with a unicorn: a magical being that can transport you from one place (unpublished) to another (publis...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/interview-literary-agent-weronika-janczuk-by-amye-archer/
Yes, it's a how-to book all right, but not just about dealing with the rejection of a manuscript. The goal of this book appears to be preemptive, an instruction manual on how to write so as to mi...
In the Prelude of The Blossoming of the World (Tell Me Press, July 2011), Brian H. Peterson describes himself as someone who loves to wrestle with images and words. This physical and mental comba...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/11/review-the-blossoming-for-the-world-by-brian-h-peterson/