Fourth Genre

Glacier Bay, July

Jamie Walters — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Every Time I Remember You

Karris McCollum — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Cardinal Movements

Marissa Landrigan — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Balancing the Equation

Steve Oberlechner — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Lapsed Catholic

Kerry Neville — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Lapsed Catholic: personal essay about faith, faithlessness, and faith again.

Pionier

Krista Eastman — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Static, Clarity, and Middle-Aged Korean Lessons

Robert Yune — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

A Korean-American writer reflects on family secrets and Asian American hate during the 2020 pandemic.

A Second Mother

Shira Musicant — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

The author describes her relationship with a mentor who developed dementia.

Fitted Sheets

Mallory C. Donoghue — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

After Visit Summary

Kristin Idaszak — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Matriarch Pink

Janay Garrick — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Rear View

Liz Arnold — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Intruder

Laurie Ann Doyle — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

bonds that last

Mallory Miles — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"bonds that last" is a lyric essay that uses the phases and gravitational pull of the moon as a metaphor to track a relationship affected by changes in sexuality and mental health. Ultimately, the essay testifies that change doesn't have to be a destructive force. Instead, change is necessary for some bonds to endure.

Going gone

laura bernstein-Machlay — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

How To Avoid the Use of Adverbs While Telling You How My Husband Died

Jan M Flynn — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

A brief meditation when guidelines for good writing collide with calamity.

Facts Are Stubborn Things

Bruce Snider — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Heaven's Whatever

Samantha Edmonds — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

The Sewing Box

Jennifer Anderson — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

The Pain Museum

Christina Olson — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Piernas Bonitas

Brooke Champagne — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Wild Streak

Shala Erlich — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

This is a flash essay about a group of high school girls planning and executing a streaking prank, with unexpected results.

Is This Lump Cancer? A Quiz

Sarah Beth Childers — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

A forty-one-year-old woman discovers a lump and has it removed and biopsied. While she waits to learn if she has cancer, she worries about the implications for her life and her family, including two young daughters.

Dear Reader

Fourth Genre — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Inter-Review

Kathy Winograd, Syd Lea — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Poets Syd Lea and Kathryn Winograd discuss the differences and similarities between the poem and the lyric essay and the intuitive process of writing either.