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Creative Nonfiction Issue #17

Mapquest to Auntie Iryne’s

By Lori White
 
 

Mapquest to Auntie Iryne’s by Lori White Leaving From:

FURMAN AVE, VENTURA, CA 93003

Pack the following:

– Water to silence your mother’s nagging cough

– The only dress you own and a pair of sandals to solve any wardrobe objections your father may have (you can change in the back seat)

– KLEENEX!!!!!!!

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"Old’s ’84" by Matthew Cusick, 30" x 45" Inlaid maps on panel, 2014, Mud Season Review
"Old’s ’84" by Matthew Cusick, 30" x 45" Inlaid maps on panel, 2014
*Image: “Old’s ’84” by Matthew Cusick, 30″ x 45″ Inlaid maps on panel, 2014

 

Mapquest to Auntie Iryne’s

By Lori White

 

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"Many Rivers" by Matthew Cusick, 48" x 78", Inlaid maps and acrylic on panel, 2009, Mud Season Review
“Many Rivers” by Matthew Cusick, 48″ x 78″, Inlaid maps and acrylic on panel, 2009

 

 

 

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By Lori White

Lori White’s recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Nervous Breakdown, Pithead Chapel, The Collapsar, andSwitchback. Her story, “Gambling One Ridge Away,” won first place in the 2013 Press 53 Open Award for Flash Fiction. She teaches English composition at Los Angeles Pierce College.