I didn’t see the car until the car shrieked its driver’s shock along the asphalt. My mother screamed her body out the kitchen door, the black poodle a small comma on the centerline. The dog lived on to bite us all, except my mother. All our shadows cloaked in a single blanket. Not me, but […]
Christina Veladota
Christina Veladota’s poetry has appeared in The Laurel Review, The Journal, and Bellingham Review, among others. She has written two chapbooks, Clutch & Brood (Aldrich Press, 2016) and The Girl & Her Lions (Finishing Line Press, 2010), and is an associate professor of English Composition & Literature at Washington State Community College in Marietta, Ohio, where she is also the coordinator of The WSCC Honors Program. In 2014 she received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.