Nov 11, 2025
gingersnaps
Creative Non-fiction: 100 words: Lowercase
gingersnaps are quintessentially linked to my grandpa—i cannot think of one without thinking of the other. in recent years, the cookie has begun to remind me of both my grandparents. but even though it is always my grandma who buys them, i believe she does largely because it is another link to her late husband. gingersnaps are just so entirely him. every time i eat one—break the hard cookie with my teeth, listen to the crunch reverberate in my skull, feel the spice go down my throat—i imagine his shabby mustache and entirely-calloused hands doing the same.