Domestic violence

excerpt from Hot with the Bad Things

Small death.      Small shame Photograph of a small room emptied      …

Roadside Stop

Regina looked down at her husband, Ray, lying half-in, half-out of their car, his face…

On Dream Houses and Ex-Girlfriends

I read Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir In the Dream House in a day. It’s…

A Talent for Packing

  We grab the bags, half filled, again. Let the shame we own shade us…