Vasilisa reached for a long, flat black lacquer box from its hiding place atop a roughly-hewn shelf. She slid open the box and let her hand rest on its contents Read More …
With a sudden clatter, Marya, Varya, Darya, Varya, and Zarya began to shift back and forth on the table, as if attempting to dance, and they squeaked all at once, “You’d Read More …
Evening came to the izba. The loom ceased its clatter. Vasilisa filled a dark iron kettle from a bucket of spring water, and set it on the shelf of the Read More …
I thought I was dead, she kept repeating.Only the wrong ones paid any attention.A policeman spotted the pile of ragsand bundled her off to the hospital.To pay for a room Read More …
Long had the last currants fluttered to the earth, Raspberries and blueberries melted in the frost, Splitted logs were waiting on the hearth, The first mitten already had been lost, But Read More …
It’s nothing no one is in that closet no sobs muffled between folds of cloth all right, all right so I shut her in there she was causing trouble again Read More …
It is now October, and the arc of the sun’s light has slowly begun shifting, the days are growing shorter in the North, where I live above the 61st parallel. Read More …
Aka “Momster”, is a mother of five, employed as an analyst, active in the autism community, and a Russian-English interpreter. She lives in Eagle River, Alaska in a little green Read More …
Swift her strokes in dizzy rumble ramble burning scarlet gulps she glides crimson Flicker-Tail no net has gained a purchase no wall could bar her from her destination no words Read More …
(for michelle escobedo) wrapped in black electric exile a mantle of guilt and shame she drags her fingers in the river her locks just might be serpents slithering down to Read More …