One woman's attempt to transcend a haunting past and reconcile a mundane present, writing to survive includes Jennifer's stories from a childhood of intermittent neglect with occasional tales from her current life as a mother and frustrated hausfrau.
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J. had a freezer full of goose breasts riddled with shot. His family owned property on Broad Creek with a duck blind right against the water, where the menfolk, clad in camouflage, would sit on brisk fall mornings, guns poised. He showed me the blind...
The house teeters above you in a nimbus of red light. A pillar of cracked, uneven steps capped by burning jack-o-lanterns ends at the front door, where cackles and howls animate the night air. “A real witch lives there,” the boy next to you says as he...
It was one of those conversations that I'm tired of having, but I couldn't seem to stop myself.
Mr. Trinkle and I were standing against the wall at the Fox Theater in Oakland, this over-the-top restored venue from the late 1920s, drinking our beers...
Here was the scene: my four-year-old son wearing a pair of old high heels, a canary-yellow birthday party hat on his head, grasping a sword in either hand. It was another one of his many guises, a funny mix of feminine and masculine, underpinned by...
Surely there are hidden meanings everywhere, waiting to be uncovered. This was my hypothesis when I started my latest self-improvement project “Barbara’s Weekly Epiphany.” All I had to do was approach the world with a childlike sense of wonder, to keep...
This writer is truly gifted and the artistry and honesty she employs to explore a painful past leaves little doubt about the quality of person that she is --- absolutely outstanding! Her fiction us excellent as well. Highly recommended.
