Creative Nonfiction - Fall 2017

CREATIVE NONFICTION 39 I really want is instant gratification, answers on-demand. I know all of these philosophers are right. I’ ...

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CREATIVE NONFICTION 41 WILLIAM WAN is the Washington Post’s science correspondent. He previously served as the Post’s religion r ...

42 MAN OF SCIENCE, MAN OF FAITH |^ WILLIAM WAN In recent years, my work had become increasingly personal, and I’d come to view m ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 43 the pain in their hearts as they sifted through the life behind them. Looking for purpose, searching for ...

44 market. I followed her as she preached in the checkout lines and rubbed oil on the foreheads of those willing to be anointed ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 45 The difference, he said, is that he is also growing in faith. “That is the definition of faith, giving yo ...

46 that silence, to smell the perfume in the air and sense the utter commitment represented by Mary’s actions. When you finally ...

MFA WRITING PROGRAM NONFICTION • FICTION • POETRY OPTION FOR JOINT COURSE OF STUDY IN LITERARY TRANSLATION Scholarships, fi nanc ...

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CREATIVE NONFICTION 49 JAMIE ZVIRZDIN teaches in the Master of Arts Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins University and is t ...

50 "SHUDDERING BEFORE THE BEAUTIFUL” |^ JAMIE ZVIRZDIN from this priesthood—as a female—did not consciously bother me. But I did ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 51 small for my ambitions, and I began to chafe under rigid gender expectations. Still, science conveniently ...

52 death by a random throng of Zoramites. The lesson is clear: those who doubt, look out. But I had few doubts in those days. (T ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 53 knowingly. Azimuth and elevation; an east, north, up vector system; GPS coordinates; an XYZ coordinate sy ...

54 of Einstein to re-discover what Abraham knew.” I gobbled it up. A few weeks later Paul kissed me, and a few months after that ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 55 curtain into the Celestial Room, which contained a glorious three-tiered chandelier and stately chairs an ...

56 When he was nineteen, Newton meticulously catalogued his sins, one of which was “Wishing death and hoping it to some.” Despit ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 57 and—although I neither expected nor desired this outcome—my faith in God. In January 2014, I visited the ...

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