Fiction
" A Mothering" chronicles the sighting of a stranger in a park eerily resembling the narrator's mother and the slow-burn grief over the mother's decline into dementia.
Prose Poetry
"No, the Other Right," is a prose poem expressing the narrator's bewilderment with pedestrians who fail to follow "the rules of the road" when crossing the street at major crosswalks in urban environments.
"Megisti Hilltop" is a prose poem excerpted from Linda's memoir-in-progress. Megisti is another name for Kastellorizo.
Creative Nonfiction Essay
"Mismeasured" is a story making its way from disappointment to reconciliation. The narrator wants to study violin at a prestigious music school. She fails the audition, then abandons that dream and playing of her instrument. Decades later music comes back to her through her daughter and her community.