A Hug on the Other Side
Twenty-five years ago, I found out my friend, Luis “Louie” Rodriguez, came home to Rhode Island to die. Louie had AIDS. He knew the day was dawning. He didn’t want any of his friends to see…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Allen M. Price
Allen M. Price was a finalist for Passages North 2025 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, and the 2024 Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship. He won Solstice’s 2023 Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize (chosen by Grace Talusan), Blue Earth Review‘s 2022 Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest, and Columbia Journal’s 2021 Winter Nonfiction Contest (chosen by Pamela Sneed). A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his work appears or is forthcoming in Roxanne Gay’s The Audacity, The Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, About Place Journal, Five Points, Michigan Quarterly Review online, Evergreen Review, december, Little Patuxent Review, Blue Mesa Review, Zone 3, Post Road, North American Review, The Masters Review, Terrain.org, Shenandoah, Transition, among others. He has an MA from Emerson College.