https://thehemlockjournal.com/2025/05/05/chicken-island-by-karin-rumie/
Category: reading
Fragment (an excerpt)
Something awful and irreversible has happened in Manhattan, I am certain of it. I've just come from downtown where everything and everyone is covered in ash and now it seems to have followed me across the bridge to Brooklyn. The fine grey dust hangs in the air, landing on the parked cars and the tree … Continue reading Fragment (an excerpt)
Doris
He knocks twice before entering Doris' room, having learned the hard way not to surprise his mother. Last week, he’d walked in during her sponge bath and still could not get that image out of his mind. Doris always kept herself thin, except for that time when she’d tried to quit her Virginia Slims. But, … Continue reading Doris
Return to Iceland via Flash Fiction Magazine
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The Power of Stories
Last year, while carpooling my eighth-grader and his friends after school, I listened to their conversation about the much debated Muslim ban. My son and his friend made comments about how "dumb and also unconstitutional" it was. Another friend argued the executive order was constitutional. He gave the following as his argument: "Imagine if someone … Continue reading The Power of Stories
