Daryl Ellerbe

I’m a writer, English teacher, and current MFA candidate based in Philadelphia. My short stories have appeared in The Showbear Family Circus and The Sad Girls Club. My first novel Amazons was shortlisted for an Ozma Award

The Screening

The temperature had dropped since the nighttime, when I’d almost burned my dress with the iron and my hair curlers had fallen in the toilet. Now in the cold morning, my stomach was aching, but I brewed coffee anyway. The steam billowed into the brittle air like wisps of cotton.