“My mother said nothing sitting beside me, crying silently, because I didn’t have the words to name what was really wrong…”
Read More“There was a dip, first, like that dip in the living room—that sag in the floorboards of the first college housing I rented. I wondered what had been dropped, what was rotting in places I couldn’t get to, couldn’t see.”
Read More“1. You cannot say it only once, or it doesn’t count.”
Read More“I offered you my heart. Chest cleaved open in the operating room, I watched you hold it in your hands.”
Read More“I submitted a memoir piece about the evil inflicted upon my friend’s
kidnapped/tortured/murdered six-year-old sister, and it got accepted.”