Each woman in chemistry lab for the first time unscrews the bottle of acetone and smells the shame of home, the crisp shriveling shock back to nail polish remover on hardwood furniture, cotton balls and girlhood and pretty we won’t want to let last. Washing beakers, I am in my best friend’s bed as she […]
Elizabeth Coletti
Elizabeth Coletti is an editor and writer from North Carolina now living in New York City. She is a recipient of the Louis D. Rubin Jr. Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the James Hurst Prize for Fiction, and her prose and poetry has appeared in the Pomona Valley Review, Panoply Zine, Neologism Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.