It was late October. The season felt like an invitation. If you want to read something spooky with middle schoolers, it’s an eye of…
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Brandon McNeice
Brandon McNeice is the Head of School of Cornerstone Christian Academy, an independent K–8 school in Southwest Philadelphia. His fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Commonweal, Plough, The Los Angeles Review, Terrain.org, Cleaver, and Hunger Mountain. His work has been longlisted for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers’ Contest and his debut essay collection, The Grief and the Gathering, is forthcoming this fall.
Latest posts
2025
Lake Effect
The idea was simple, but somewhat unorthodox. We would bring a small group of students north for two days. They would swim, boat, fish,…
2025
Not a Break — A Becoming
I didn’t frame it as “unemployment” or “in transition.” I called it what it was — a career sabbatical. Not a vacation. Not a…
