Carolyn Silverstein

A native New Yorker with an affinity for the outdoors, Carolyn Silverstein is currently earning her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Virginia Woolf Award in Short Fiction, and her personal essays have appeared in a number of online publications. Follow her Twitter @carolynsilv3 for future publications.

Afterboom

In my head, there is a Knife. The Knife is silver and serrated and wood-handled. It is the Knife Grandma tells Eden to cut the Challah with on Rosh Hashanah, the Knife she’s used since Livi D.’s would-be Bat Mitzvah. It is well loved, like Eden would say, or worn out, like Grandma would, and knows how to handle itself. It is molded to fit my grip perfectly.
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