Once I had discovered creative nonfiction I couldn’t get enough of it, and the many variations in the definition of an essay. There is nothing straight and binary about it. The best writers of memoir are expert at taking great leaps in the imagination, of writing through metaphor and finding ways of simultaneously concealing and revealing. I love the sense of the past ghosts in this essay, and its lyrical quality. That the narrator is both in Target and also with the ghosts of his past, and his own struggle with alcoholism.
First published on Ghost City Press, February 2020, and available to read online here
A Personal Anthology 