Background and art note: Gertrude (5-year-old girl) and Linus (2-year-old boy) are eating their dinner. Both children have chicken noodle soup for dinner. A pot of it simmers on the stove. Gertrude sits in a regular chair while Linus is stuck in a high chair. Linus picks a carrot out of his soup, and throws […]
I’ve been playing with the ratio of cream to coffee this weektrying to replicate the color of the coffee I’d sip, sitting on Dad’s lapearly in the morningafter I tricked him by sneaking a squeaky mouse toy into his back pocketbellows of surprise rang out when he sat downpart of the game we played day […]
This was one of the first stories I wrote, inspired by a conversation that happened at my parents’house in 2015. I started drafting it in my mind as I tossed and turned on an uncomfortablecouch, booted out of the guest room by my 1-year-old baby. And by guest room, I mean deathtrap, where fraying extension […]
