Days at Laclede Place
by Anuradha Bhowmik issue 67 My friends rode low bikes and Razor scooters to the blue vinyl-sided triplex and knocked on the deadbolt door to ask Ma if I could come out. She never let me leave the parking lot, so I saved colored chalk for hopscotch. The boys brought a boombox and Andy Capp’s […]
Goodnight Lyric
by Kristina Marie Darling issue 67 A clasped hand is rarely safe, especially in the spring. That day everything in Rome was burning: the chapel,the little school in Trastevere, and the restaurant, with its ostentatious display of carved ice. Now the longgoodbye, the final exchange of gifts. Because theirnarrative is not specific to a particular year, it […]
Lineage
by Layla Al-Bedawi issue 67 On Monday I don’t even go inside. I circle the house twice, looking for clues about what is expected of me, how I might help. Finally the only thing I can think to do is drive down to the nursery, buy a bag of tulip bulbs and a shovel, and […]
Foreign Bodies
by Gulchin A. Ergun issue 67 It’s the end of a busy weekend, but I’m the gastroenterologist covering seven doctors, so hectic is what I expect. Sixty rings and beeps, fifty-three follow-ups, and twelve new consults claimed my attention in the past fifty-one hours. So it is 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, and I leave the […]