Memoir Magazine

3 Minute Read/Aging/Family/Grief/Literature/Loss/Love/Memoir/nonfiction/On Memory

Letter to My Husband Who Died Suddenly by Felice Aull

I want to tell you about your death because I feel some guilt about the final events of that night. I have repressed the guilt in order to keep living but I nee...

20 Minute Read/Escape/Grief/Literature/Loss/Man in The Mirror/nonfiction/On Memory/Suicide

One Year After the Fire by Kevin Taylor

I’d talked with firefighters about extension — how a fire spreads — all the while constructing, mentally rehearsing and refining an elaborate plan for my own de...

5 Minute Read/Addiction/Grief/Literature/Loss/Love/nonfiction/On Memory

Addicted to Love: 38 Special By Tanner Ballengee

* Featured Artwork: By Michelle Nguyen Addicted to Love: 38 Special By Tanner Ballengee “I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat, ...

15 Minute Read/Aging/Literature/Loss/Mental Health/On Memory

Full Catastrophe By Lauren Crux

My mother died of Alzheimer's disease. The full catastrophe. She became a turnip––blind, deaf, unable to speak. Her gorgeous dark, thick, red hair––stringy and ...