I learned that houses can rot. I learned that such houses don’t communicate but I didn’t want to give up—love, passion, a vestigial closet, a nail hole in the dining room ceiling. I thought of my mother canning pears, an indelible roof repaired, paintings in and out. I fell in love with my hallway floor, […]
Anne Panning
Anne Panning is the author the memoir Dragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss, as well as two short story collections and the novel Butter. She has won The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction which was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice . She's currently working on her second memoir about her late father, a barber and addict. She has published in places such as Brevity (5x), The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, River Teeth, etc. She teaches creative writing at SUNY-Brockport. Her website is www.annepanning.com.
Things You Start
There are some things you start, and then you finish, like the day in May you sat overdue on the couch eating an apple and felt a ping inside like a plucked guitar string. The next thing you knew, you held a red, steaming infant in your arms in a strange cold city known for […]