Where the Tigers Sleep

Where the Tigers Sleep

[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Twenty-three-year-old Bessie Turner grabs her keys from a hook by her front door and holds them to her chest for a few seconds. The light here is dim, but outside, this October day is all red leaves and...
The Current Between Us

The Current Between Us

[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] We had been to a specialist that morning with our daughter, Penny, who had started sleepwalking at six years old. Winn and I were divorced more than a year by then. Our marriage had been a disaster,...
The Heart is a Pump

The Heart is a Pump

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] The story goes that when I was born, my daddy didn’t especially cotton to me. I had this head full of black hair, for one thing, in a family so blond we looked like we belonged on a hillside singing...

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