My mother wasn’t a cook with a gourmet repertoire, but no one made a better pot roast. Even better than the Jersey diner pot roast she loved, as much for its heft as for its sides: Parker House rolls, iceberg salad, a single slice of tomato robed across its top. Her pot […]
Tina Barry
Tina Barry is the author of I Tell Henrietta (Aim Higher, Inc., 2024), Beautiful Raft and Mall Flower (Big Table Publishing). Her poetry and short fiction can be found in Thimble, Verse Daily, Rattle, ONE ART, SWWIM, Gyroscope, The Best Small Fictions 2020 (spotlighted story) and 2016, and elsewhere. Tina has five Pushcart Prize nominations, several Best of the Net and Best Microfiction nods. She teaches at The Poetry Barn and Writers.com.
Neighbors
My road quirks and climbs, its trees, one heavy at the hips, split in the middle. A neighbor’s home painted green and plum, like a bruise. Peaches opens the door to let the dog out but never leaves the house […]
Henrietta
I tell Henrietta about my mother’s heartbeat and how I heard it in her womb. I think I’m lying, but as I speak, I feel it in my own chest, the bongBong of it, wavery through the saline sac. My hand, a tiny shimmer of ghost beside my cheek. I hear my mother first, then feel […]