The Reader

“I can’t believe you would write about something like that,” my sister said. She had called our house, it was pure luck that my mother happened to be out.



Lightflies

Dillard asks, which of you want to give your lives and be writers?




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Image shows a close up of open refrigerator shelves in a supermarket. The close angle shows colored bottled products and some fruit in the foreground. The rest of the products are blurred, arranged in lines in the background, further down the shelves. The lighting is dim aside from white overhead lights illuminating the contents on the shelves.

Identities

It's usually right / to say You are lost, when you is so many of us,


Photo of two queen sized beds in a hotel room; between the beds is a single nightstand with two lamps mounted into the wall; the right side of the room is shadowed, and the left side has sunlight shining in through an unseen window.

Parable

This is a survival chore.


Four closet shelves with an assortment of clothing piles in disarray. Among the items are yellow, gray, and brown knit sweaters; a pale blue and white striped button-down shirt; and T-shirts.

To Have (Stuff) and to Hold

Who were we as an adult couple, not just two college kids sleeping on each other’s hand-me-down mattresses?


Landscape photo of the purple sky after the sun has set. A few clouds are dark against the purple.

Dictionary

Purple: The color of longing, of the blood in your veins that your heart is pumping, butterflies and all.