Arrow Rock Literary Journal

Lindenwood University

Category: Nonfiction – 18th Edition

Nonfiction pieces from the 18th edition of Arrow Rock

  • In a modest plastic pot, a small plant sways slightly in the breeze. Above are clear blue sky and streaming sunlight. Sparrows serenade the flowing sapling amidst the ambience of a trickling waterfall. It’s difficult to imagine now, but this small leafy pillar may one day be a swooping willow tree, with lofty tendrils cascading…

  • What do you imagine when you think of someone with ADHD? Do you picture a grown adult or a child? A boy or a girl? More often than not, when someone imagines a person with ADHD, it’s a young boy, probably in elementary or middle school. Most people don’t picture a little girl. And almost…

  • We lay there together in the dark of the basement, faces lit by the glow of the television. Somehow, we had become an intertwined mess of limbs, unclear where one of us began, and the other ended. I could feel the way your hands pulled me in tightly, but softly as if you were afraid…