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Featured · Craft essay · Hippocampus Magazine · April 2026
The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir
On borrowing the vignette structure of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried as the container for a memoir that refuses a standard narrative arc, and why story-truth can say what the facts can’t.
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Time Doesn’t Need Permission
A song on a shower playlist carries a woman back twenty-seven years, and one spring day of teaching seniors, juniors, and her own daughter becomes a study in hope.
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Is My Beret Too Much?
After the students leave on a Friday afternoon, a teacher is joined by Katherine and Ophelia. The three of them trade notes on fathers, voice, and what they might have been.
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Chapter 13
On Friday the 13th, a teacher transcribes the last revisions of her first manuscript and has to decide what to do with a finish line that makes no noise.
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