Trapped: Published April 1 on The Moon Magazine
My piece “Trapped” was published in the April 1, 2019 Issue of The Moon magazine. The theme for April was “Death | The Future We Seldom Speak Of.”
I wrote “Trapped” in memory of my mom and also in memory of the women who survive domestic violence and live with its aftermath. This is as much my mother’s story as it is mine, my brother’s and my sister’s. #fightagainstdomesticviolence #fightpancreaticcancer #fightcancer #survivors
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Over the last ten days of my mother’s life, my brother, my sister, her husband, her son and I had holed up in my sister’s home. The house took on the smell of four able-bodied adults and a toddler on top of each other for 240 straight hours, living. We stood vigil over our dying mother, waiting.
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