Mary Vensel White

Mary Vensel White is the author of The Qualities of Wood (2014), a novel, and Bellflower (2019), a novel-in-moments. Her work has appeared in december magazine, Catapult, The Wisconsin Review, The Rumpus, The Madison Review, Author Magazine, and other places. She is an adjunct professor of English and writing at Concordia University, Irvine, and owner of Type Eighteen Editing. She lives in southern California with her four children.

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Jasper wasn’t the sort of man who liked to share his food, never had been. This did not sit well with women. They always wanted “just a bite” of this and “a taste” of that and sometimes, he knew, they wanted to share an entrée to stay on their diets even though afterwards, they’d order a rich dessert and he would go home hungry. But these are lessons you learn, especially over the course of a sixteen-year marriage.
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