Reconstructing a Grandmother
From out of the blue, I get a message from Dan, a stranger living on the other side of the…
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Imperfection
Few of us will tolerate a lousy family photo. These days, the marginal cost of a bad shot is exactly…
The Stillborn Photograph
The story is this: Mary bore the twin sons in the shopfront’s upstairs bedroom. She and her husband Will named one…
Gods and Gastropods
It is 1968. I am eleven years old. In the last few months, I have begun reorganizing my late childhood,…
Bureaucrats, Ancestors, and Nabokov’s Butterflies
Though bureaucracy is unloved, many of us devote our leisure time to bureaucratic pursuits. We organize needle and thread in…
Max’s Half of the Photo
This is my grandfather Max. In 1948, Dora, my freshly divorced grandmother cut his body out of their wedding portrait…
Left Write & Centaur 