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The Compton Creek by Mike Sonksen

December 6, 2024 Flash Nonfiction Nonfiction Winter 2024 issue Managing Editor

The Compton Creek is the Los Angeles River’s southernmost tributary, the only one that starts in the inner city. Its headwaters come from the street storm drains of South Central Los Angeles. Other LA River tributaries like the Tujunga Wash, Arroyo Seco, Rio Hondo, Pacoima Wash and the Burbank Western Wash flow downstream from the northern foothills of either the…

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NONFICTION: A Map for Living by Elizabeth Amon

May 31, 2024 Flash Nonfiction Nonfiction TCR Daily The Coachella Review

Bleached bones, picked clean by a lion, are left to bake under the East African sun, says the reedy-voiced British narrator on the nature film I watch from beneath a mound of covers. The abandoned bones stop the elephant matriarch in her tracks. She raises her trunk to trumpet a call of distress across the plain, lamenting the death of…

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