Michele Suzann

Michele Suzann's fiction has been published in/at Fence, Bellevue Literary Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Always Crashing, and The Rupture. Her story collection, Fleece, was short-listed by Carmen Maria Machado for the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards.

Witnesses, or, Who Will Take Out The Trash?

For a while I had friends who used phrases like “holding space,” and “I had to get really quiet in order to receive guidance,” and “it just is,” and “so I allowed him his feelings.” They’d say “I’m not religious, I’m spiritual,” in a way that implied persons who might claim membership in the former camp were clearly more benighted than those of the latter, but hey, “we each have our own path [mine just happens to be more evolved].”