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Loss Series 1: Coping with Pet Bereavement and My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat, ‘Timi’

Dilek Isler Hayirli·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024)

·June 1, 2024·7 min read

Coping with Pet Bereavement: My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat 'Timi' is definitely not a farewell; it is only a love letter for my beloved cat who got lost on January 15, 2023, days after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit southern Türkiye. Like my country, I was also shaken deeply, and like the buildings, my heart almost collapsed.

Love and Loss

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024)

·January 23, 2024·19 min read

This is from the experience of losing someone who you thought would be a part of your family, only to realize their journey was different.

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Genuine Confessions from the Fearless Sommelier: Wine In The Blood

Annie B. Shapero·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 3, Issue 2 (2023)

·June 14, 2023·5 min read

"My parents drank wine with dinner every night. There’s nothing remarkable about that, but to a kid growing up in Mid-Missouri it was weird."

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Losing a Hatch of Baby Chicks, or Mourning (Unfinished)

Crystal Sands·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

·November 6, 2022·11 min read

""Mourning (Unfinished)" is an essay about the way my experiences with farm animals helped me come to terms with a miscarriage."

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Flash Nonfiction: “The Things They Carried,” A Glimpse Into the Funeral Industry

Hollace Sheppard·

All Content Autoethnographic Flash Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·May 10, 2022·3 min read

"And these are the things I carry: the memories of those gone before us; the names of those entrusted to me to care for."

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: I Just Want to Go Home – Moving, Loss and Unacknowledged Grief

Michelle Reale·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·March 23, 2022·18 min read

"Moving away from a beloved home at a tender age was traumatizing, in part, because that home was the only place in which I felt safe."