A Surreal Youth[1] Mark Davenport … Among our childhood memories of significant experiences, all of which appear equally clear and distinct, there are some scenes that turn out, when checked…to have been falsified. It is not that they have been freely invented; they are incorrect insofar as they transfer an event to a place where…
All Sharp Teeth and Soft Jessamyn Smyth A naked crone drying her silver hair with a blue towel looks me up and down, glares at my Lava Pants. She’s relentlessly beautiful: strong, weathered, soft, tough-expressioned. She says, gruffly: Why do you wear those. Most people who interrogate me about this I ignore, or deflect…
What to Do When Grandma Has Dementia Larry Handy The Woman in the Corner When Grandma stares, points at and talks to the invisible woman in the corner holding a baby, just ignore her. Don’t be afraid, even if it is 10 p.m. and you’ve just finished watching Paranormal Activity. Grandma will grab your arm…
Blow Blow Breathe Listen Rebecca Cook Every day these chemicals, every day this swallowing down, blue and white, green and white, a palm of pills between me and the voices between me and the monster its teeth its twisted backward baby head. There were dried up flowers in a white vase above my bed, a…
Dad Tells Me How They Made Sausage Christina Holzhauser Oh yeah, we made our own sausage. Had a sausage grinder. Grind that all up. Stuff it. Put it in, oh, used to, years ago, they used to take the guts from the hogs—they clean all that outta there. Sometime we started buyin’ it at the…
