Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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October 1, 1957

The Soldier

By David Ferry

Saturday afternoon. The barracks almost empty. The soldiers are almost all on overnight pass. There is only me, writing this letter to you, And one other soldier, down at the […]

October 1, 1957

The Milkmaid

By David Ferry

A practised gesture of her practised hand, So ivory, and so bejewelled with finger-tip, Made all our party put on her livery, Seeking to pay her lip service, singing her […]

October 1, 1957

The Bird

By David Ferry

Carefully, and as if fearfully, and minding Of itself in its own fine feather, Though modestly, and mildly in its finding, This bird submissive to the weather, Storm, wind, the […]