By Justin Ancheta

1. How do you define “disability”? a) An umbrella term covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. None of which could ever apply to you. b) “Tell us more about your experience with asexuality and disability.” You imagine the question coming up in tomorrow’s news interview. You’ve worked with asexuality and queerness to cut out and hammer together a healthier

creative nonfictioncarte blanche magazineJune 2, 2023Justin Ancheta

On Reading “A Horizon Line”

By Alycia Pirmohamed

I’m reading an essay in vol. 36, no. 4 of Textual Practice / about ‘flat style,’ a poetic style that Noreen Masud describes as “so overloaded— / with feeling, language and detail—that it turns counter-intuitively into something numb and detached, which seems to shut down further discussion, and create impasse.”

creative nonfictioncarte blanche magazineJune 2, 2023Alycia Pirmohamed

Not Everything We Hold Is Ours to Keep

By Heather Rolland

I was looking for my grandparents’ wedding photos when I opened the box. In it lay a collection of my husband’s odds and ends, damp and filthy: a box of condoms; a tan leather handgun holster splotched with mildew; a white cotton baseball cap with a logo I didn’t recognize; an old Chronogram magazine; a new-looking Artie Traum CD; a lot of white cotton rope, piled, not wound into a hank