Contemplating Craters in Old Growth Forest, Silver Lake, Vermont

Creative nonfiction by Mary Fontana

The Pyrenees and the Alps, which stretched from east to west, meant that many trees were unable to move south ahead of the ice.

creative nonfictioncarte blanche magazineJune 10, 2026Mary FontanaComment

Of Time

Creative nonfiction by Theresa Lin

In his essay “Exhaling,” Carrère quotes Freud, who quotes Ludwig Börne:

Take a few sheets of paper and for three days on end write down, without fabrication or hypocrisy, everything that comes into your head.

creative nonfictioncarte blanche magazineJune 10, 2026Theresa LinComment

Morphology

Creative nonfiction by by Suzanne Manizza Roszak

Being transported into this forest requires that you first drive a string of streets too narrow for more than a single car, then take a stretch of highway that cuts not through hills but instead through improbably flattened and uniform terrain.