MICRO I spend a lot of time thinking about the nurse who wiped the blood off my legs after I gave birth. WIT TEA So how ‘bout the next time you see your mother shaking and bending, keeping yet transcending time, and building toward a chorus, please feel free to take your visceral facial reaction and shove it into a book, or smash it against a digital screen.
An Expert in the Field of Giving
I am the Joy Your Mother Felt Before You Made That Face in Response to Her Kitchen Singing
Janelle Bassett
Janelle Bassett's writing appears in The Rumpus, American Literary Review, No Contact, New Delta Review, Smokelong Quarterly, VIDA Review, and Slice Magazine. She lives in St. Louis and is an Assistant Fiction Editor for Split Lip Magazine.