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Here For You

Here For You

The radiation oncologist holds up a piece of paper that looks like something used for target practice. Black outline of a human figure, faceless, gender neutral. You and your father watch as she points to a clump of black squiggles drawn across the figure’s pelvis. “This is the area we treated last time.” She points...

Two Essays

FEVER DREAM My mother in a black two piece bathing suit, chic.  My father splashes water, takes a photo—we see her writhe like a cat, a terrible face, the tiger, in agony, a comedy.  I never saw this—only in photographs. Suburban barbecue backyard, juniper shrubs with rabbits hidden deep inside as in the magician’s dark...