Liz Wasson Coleman

Liz Wasson Coleman holds a BA in Arts & Literature from Antioch University. Her writing includes memoir, lyric essay, fiction, hybrid poetry, and journalism. Recent work has appeared in Prometheus Dreaming. She resides with her family in a little Craftsman house in Seattle's Central District.

Knots

Any of the stories about why we left could be true, but I gravitate toward the one about the middle-aged father threatening to drive the Jeep off a cliff. I don’t know whether he imagined his family in the vehicle with him. The little boys wouldn’t have been wearing seatbelts in 1979. The infant would have been crying in her mother’s weak arms.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 35, March 2020

Liz Wasson Coleman

Liz Wasson Coleman holds a BA in Arts & Literature from Antioch University. Her writing includes memoir, lyric essay, fiction, hybrid poetry, and journalism. Recent work has appeared in Prometheus Dreaming. She resides with her family in a little Craftsman house in Seattle's Central District.

Knots

Any of the stories about why we left could be true, but I gravitate toward the one about the middle-aged father threatening to drive the Jeep off a cliff. I don’t know whether he imagined his family in the vehicle with him. The little boys wouldn’t have been wearing seatbelts in 1979. The infant would have been crying in her mother’s weak arms.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 35, March 2020

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