Author: Barrett Bowlin

Barrett Bowlin is the author of the story collection, Ghosts Caught on Film (Bridge Eight Press). His essays and short fiction appear in places, like The Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology, TriQuarterly, Barrelhouse, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, and Mud Season Review. He lives and teaches and rides trains in Massachusetts.

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Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction Issue #81

"Malkinson's Iceberg,” 2025, 55 cm x 40 cm, acrylic, collage and mixed media.
"Malkinson's Iceberg,” 2025, 55 cm x 40 cm, acrylic, collage and mixed media.

Artwork by Sean Bw Parker

Pugilism 2020-2022 A week after my father’s 78th birthday, he has a stroke, and then another, and then it takes him six months to die. A little over a year later, my mother’s two bichons frisé dead-leg her from behind, and she falls down and dies from what the coroner calls “cardiopulmonary failure,” and that’s […]