Lisa K. Buchanan lives and teaches in San Francisco. Her writings have appeared in Fourth Genre, The Missouri Review, Narrative, New Letters, and The Rumpus.

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Confessions of a
White Tornado

By LISA K. BUCHANAN

“Neighbor, I doubt you intended to hold my nose to the ammonia bottle and make my eyes sting.”