Animals come after my father dies. Dogs. Cats. Ducks. Geese. A goat. A peacock. They wander to our home several years into his absence, appearing on our doorstep, or catching our eye from feed store cages. Always, we take them in. We line our laundry room floor with bath towels, bed sheets and spare blankets, [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
“Playing Bridge in Heaven” by Literary Awards Finalist, Elizabeth Edelglass
Susan was writing a story about a teacher who almost lost everything when she had an affair with a married man, the father of one of her students, and Susan’s best friend Frannie, a sixth-grade teacher, was sure the story was about her.
“Oh my god, Susie,” Frannie moaned. “How could you do this to [...]
“No Thank You, Otto Titzling” by Literary Awards Finalist, Ana Thorne
(This piece also appeared in the Mount Voices Journal published in April 2008 by Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.)
Somehow I’d connected wearing a bra with a story on television about a young girl with polio in an iron lung. Her hair, head and neck were all that could be seen of the body [...]