Creative nonfiction is my personal favorite style to write in. These true stories are written using rhetorical and literary strategies, as if they are fictional. The author often takes first personal narrative to describe past experiences.
My first day at La Casa Verde was a Tuesday, and Tuesday was trash day. The streets of Desamparados were lined with mounds of trash to the point where sidewalks were unwalkable. Rotten food, week-old diapers, used tampons, and sour milk. The stench was unbearable. Street animals broke open the bags in hopes of finding […]
I barreled onto the grass median coughing up smoke as if my esophagus was an exhaust pipe. The mud and rain soaked into my jeans as I crouched on all fours, dry-heaving and panting, and something about those opposites made it impossible to breathe. White faced and doe eyed, I looked at my car, the
There it was, staring at me – the shiny tin full of hot dogs. All piled one on top of the other, skin on skin. I quickly dressed one in a bun to cover up the nakedness for my own comfort. Moving down the buffet line, I added one of each condiment to show my
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In honor of my grandfather’s funeral today, this is the letter I wrote and read at the service. As a child, your home was a magical place. “Going to Papa’s” meant going on an adventure. It was a place of climbing on tractors, hide and seek in the shed, and four-wheeling in the woods. Even
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Greed – “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more” (Ephesians 4: 19) “Let’s play war,” I suggested knowing Camden loved a good card game,
The new year marks a celebration of the past with anticipation for the future – anticipation where goals are set, plans are made, and everyone has a general optimism because this day, January 1st, feels like a new start. With the change of one day, vegetables don’t taste so bad, weights don’t seem so heavy,
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