On my way home after working nightshift at the hospital, I see wreckage common here in Utica at winter’s end—two deer carcasses tossed onto snowbanks beside the road. Of course, I think about their fawns, old enough to be on their own—oblivious. And I think of human children— times when I have seen one in […]
William Welch
William Welch lives in Utica, New York, where he works as a registered nurse and is editor of Doubly Mad, a literary and visual arts journal published by The Other Side of Utica, Inc. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Pudding Magazine, and Belle Ombre, among others.
Vox, Vocis
The air hoards voices—and so many sounds: distant sirens, the neighbor’s children chattering along with starlings and chickadees. Old men outside bodegas, gawking, gossiping. Underneath these, the paper-like crumpling of dry leaves, as though the air was writing everything down, compulsively taking notes— what did he say? Something about voices, something about birds. The air […]