IT CAN BREAK

Published in Southern Review “When I was a child, my father could circle his fingers, thumb to middle, around both of my wrists. In my forties now, I feel sure that he still could if he tried. His bearish frame chuckling with the absurdity of the fact that my tiny body came in part from […]

BECAUSE YOU’RE MINE

Winner of Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction; Published in New Orleans Review “Melinda had seen her daughter look this way at other men, older men, men with wives. She’d wondered before what made Laura think she could have what she wanted, have another woman’s husband, even for just that moment when her eyes sought […]