“Even the blue-and-white Delftware tile is back up on the wall because, when you took it down, the pale square of paint behind it broke your heart.”

— Andrea Lewis (writer)

“Shored Against My Ruins,” The Southeast Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2013)
2010-

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