Before the solstice, I dreamt of a tsunami, the shoreline pulled back like a brazen woman, exposing her shells and seaweeds, and no one stopped the party to run to higher ground. Unlike the spiders who climbed and wove blankets of high web across Victoria after the floods. Here, I save my shower water, wipe […]
Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau’s work has appeared or will appear in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She is the winner of La Piccioletta Barca’s inaugural competition and the Chapman University Flash Fiction winner, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia.