Mar 5, 2020 | Barbara Edema, Essay, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Reverend Dr. Barbara Edemea returns to The Nightingale with a series of positive intentions celebrating belief in one another, oneself, and our community of survivors. These intentions are at once universal and specific–with a “he” and a...Mar 5, 2020 | Fiction, Graham Marema, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In a response to our February prompt, a family breakfast tradition explores the tension within silence and an untold truth. Marema explores the contrast between the precise, familiar ease of making eggs for breakfast with the complicated unknowable experience of...Feb 20, 2020 | Fiona Zeller, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
While it’s a difficult story to tell, Zeller courageously conveys her experience and highlights the problems within rape culture that normalize sexual violence on college campuses. With careful description that carries the audience through Zeller’s...Feb 20, 2020 | Holly Hagman, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In this response to our February prompt, a recipe for healing takes us through the process of leaving an abusive relationship and entering a healthy one, step by step. Hagman is excellently balanced between the general and the specific, knowing that the steps laid out...Feb 5, 2020 | Ellen Sauters, Memoir, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
In this response to our December and January prompt, Ellen Sauter discusses the strengthening anniversary of her survival. The piece opens in the midst of violence, but Sauter also shares the questions that came after. Over a process of coming to terms with trauma and...Feb 5, 2020 | All Authors, Laura Bristow, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
In this piece by Laura Bristow, we view a fishing trip as an allegory for an experience with sexual violence. With deft language, clever metaphor, and easy lyricism, she cuts into a relationship and reveals years of abuse the same way one would cut open a fish. It...