Writings by: Jessie van Eerden

This author has written 2 pieces

Yoke

Fall 2017 ♦

Creative Nonfiction

“And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment…And immediately the ﬂow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was…

The Long Weeping

Jessie van Eerden ♦

Summer 2015 ♦

Creative Nonfiction, Special Feature: Voice Lessons

I stand at the hand pump in the grove, young, maybe ten, having run from the signs of dying. Under the small shingled roof on the cement slab, the iron pump is smudged by creatures that licked it in the night, coons and cats and the rumored black bear. My…