BOOKS & CHILDREN Abigail felt it in her chest – the slow, disappointing collapse of a used up party balloon. She sighed. Her heart – once a robust timpani of motherly pride – wheezed and gasped as she attempted to recount …
Author: Rachael Cudlitz
News: Some Souls Stay
I am honored to announce my short story Some Souls Stay will be appearing in the Flame Tree Press short story anthology, Lost Souls. The anthology will be released in September and is “. . . the usual mix of …
Mother’s Girl (excerpt)
Imagine this: You wake up in a hospital room. The room is cold. It smells of bleach and rosewater. You are a small girl propped on two sturdy pillows, your bony legs and hips wrapped beneath stiff white sheets held …
What We Left Behind (excerpt)
I am six. My father sits at the fold-away card table in our kitchen smoking an entire pack of menthol cigarettes. He grinds each smoldering cherry into table’s vinyl top, filling the kitchen with a smog of nicotine, menthol and …
On Earth as it is in Heaven (excerpt)
The first light of dawn stretched across the horizon, cracking the night’s world into two spheres. One, an indigo canopy of fading stars, and the other, a yawning valley flooded with a verdant sea of prairie grass. Warm winds hushed …
