Right there in the kitchen, the wood stove glowed scarlet. Mama filled the metal tub and steam rose to the ceiling, fogged the window. The small boy scrubbed himself with Lifebuoy soap, red and foamy, good enough for the Holsteins, sometimes the goats. A tight basin for a nine year old, […]
Gabriella Brand
Gabriella Brand’s poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Syncopation, Cordite, Echoes, The Globe and Mail, and Shiuli. She has read her work by invitation at the Poisson Rouge in New York and on OPEN MIC of the AIR. A Pushcart Prize nominee in both fiction and poetry, Gabriella teaches in the OLLI program at UCONN. She is married to the son of a Maine potato farmer. Gabriellabrand.net