Laura Canon

Laura Canon was born in Lexington, Kentucky, graduated from NYU, and currently live in Henderson, Nevada. She has been previously published in several literary journals, including the Eunoia Review and The Closed Eye Open.

The Poison Hill

The photograph was square, with white edges, taken with their father’s camera last summer at the lake. Gertrude remembered it well: Louis had posed in his swimsuit, one hand on his hip.
But since then, someone had scribbled all over the picture. Large, crude loops of rough blue ink elaborated her brother’s swimsuit, flaring his trunks into a skirt and blotted his head with frizzy curls, flapper-short.