When Richie moved in, he brought his dead dog’s leash with him. “This was Cocoa’s,” he said. “We have to hang it by the door. Then if there’s a fire, I can grab it on my way out.” I nodded. We hammered in a nail and hung up the green leash. A limp strip of […]
E. B. Bartels
E. B. Bartels, MFA, is a writer, editor, and teacher from Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Catapult, The Believer Logger, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. E.B.’s book GOOD GRIEF: ON LOVING PETS, HERE AND HEREAFTER is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2022. E.B. is an instructor at the creative writing center GrubStreet, and she lives outside Boston with her fiancé, Richie, and their pets.