The fur coat is raccoon, bushy to my thighs, and dyed an outrageous sapphire blue. It weighs at least fifteen pounds. I only wear the coat at night in New Jersey winters when it’s freezing cold, when the whole block is asleep, when my dog, a peach-colored Labradoodle, needs her walk. I don’t want to […]
Arlaina Tibensky
Arlaina Tibensky’s writing has appeared in One Story, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Smokelong Quarterly, Stanchion and elsewhere and has been anthologized in New Stories from the Midwest 2018. Her YA novel about a girl obsessed with Sylvia Plath, And Things Fall Apart, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. She is working on a new novel.