creative nonfiction

Part 43: Floating Away

by cifanic
July 21, 2016February 9, 2021

Healdsburg, California at dawn. 6/18/2016 It wasn’t until the balloon was three thousand feet in the air that I started to panic. Everything moving… Read More »Part 43: Floating Away

Part 35: A Liminal State

by cifanic
November 3, 2015February 9, 2021

Photo: By Greg Rakozy via Unsplash It was December and the first time visiting San Francisco in years. I was flown out for a job interview… Read More »Part 35: A Liminal State

Nicole C. Lehmann-Haupt is an author and published writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hypertext Magazine, El Portal, Ignatian Literary Magazine, and Mulberry Literary, among others. In 2021 and 2024, Nicole's work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has also contributed to Thrive Global, Yahoo!, Indie Shuffle, and LAist. Driven by a passion for storytelling that resonates across ages, her stories feature misfits, underdogs, and weirdos stumbling upon the extraordinary in an ordinary world. She is currently at work on a short story collection.