Down the block from Linda’s home, there was a cemetery. Its southern gate faced her street and stayed open daily until dusk. On afternoons when Linda’s mother lay down with one of her headaches, Linda took a sketchbook to the graves.
It lifted off from a chair-back,
Beating a smooth course for the right window
And clearing the sill of the world.
- Richard Wilbur, "The Writer"
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Short Story: When Linda Sketched the Dead
Halfway Down the Stairs published one of my short stories last week. The link to it is here. The opening paragraph:
Labels:
childhood,
death,
fear,
my writing,
short stories,
writing
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