My Mother’s Hands
First published by Lunch Ticket in the Amuse-Bouche series. When she died, they were buttery smooth and still, and buried under mine, palms pressed flat against dry, cotton hospital sheets. I suffocated them with my…
The Woodpecker
Read The Woodpecker in the July/August issue of Literary Mama Magazine.
The Boy Down the Street Dies By Suicide
First published by Hobart. In the ninth grade, I learned that you say “hanged” and not “hung” when describing the way the boy down the street died by suicide. My creative writing teacher delivered this…
Finding Strength in Motherhood
First published by She is Kindred. You read many things about motherhood before you enter it, but you never learn about the loneliness. Even if you could read about it, you wouldn’t understand it until…
On a Trip to Croatia, We Rent a Paddle Boat and Go Swimming
First published in Moss Puppy Magazine. In the Adriatic sea, we bob on gentle ripples, bounce like buoys, the salt of the water lifting our limbs up, arms floating to the sides as if we…
Eleuthera Blue
First published in Moss Puppy Magazine. The island with the swimming pigs is the popular tourist spot; you feed them hot dogs on long sticks that they swear aren’t made from pork but their keratin…
Plan for Going to a Music Festival with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
First published by Gastropoda. If you ask a person without generalized anxiety disorder how they plan for a music festival, they say things like: “Wear layers in case it gets too hot,” or “get there…
Flying into Chicago at Sunset
First published in The Ilanot Review. Through the book-sized window, the circling planes blink in the sky like lightning bugs at dusk. The earth below is speckled with baseball diamonds and a grid of twinkling…
At the Lake House, We Skip Rocks
First published by Nightingale & Sparrow. At the lake house, we skip flat rocks on flatter liquid surfaces, laugh when the wrist launch goes awry and the rocks skip upwards instead of outwards, kerplunk into…
The Cost of Miscarriage
First published in Pithead Chapel Content Warning: Miscarriage The cost of miscarriage was two thousand four hundred sixty-eight dollars and seventy-six cents. It was outlined on the Explanation of Benefits Annie received in the mail…