From the Other End of the Speculum
Dr. Sweeney had summoned Coroner Edmund Rawson to Mrs. Bird’s boarding house because Eliza was in a “dying state.” Dr. Sweeney told him that...
This Town
When we arrived at Boys Town, we all saw what we wanted to see. I noted that the church was old and stone and shaped like a crucifix the way I liked it....
A Test for Safe Zones
The first thing is how to rescue.
How to be less damaged but damaged enough to seem fair.
A favored method is never use your hands for anything....
My year with flowers, unshrinking
Our expenses were expansive, like, excuse me, we'd better
have it: gold wallops, white eggs, even the sterling shone
over-basket. Got water? It...
The Children’s Crusade
Childhood is a lie. Ask anyone. Floods appear
to make us thirsty. But floods do not exist......