Molly Seale has published memoir, essays, short stories and poems in a variety of publications, including Hippocampus Magazine, Hotel Amerika, New Millennium Writings, Connotation Press, Into the Sun, and The Write Launch. She hold an MFA in Theatre from The University of Texas, Austin and lives in Makanda, Illinois.
A Widow’s Mind
Lorrie Blue has been widowed for five years. She is bathed in sadness—a trigger to a relentless, dark hole, a vacuum of emptiness that won’t, can’t leave her. She is freshly arrived in Austin, Texas, where she will deliver a paper on a panel on the work of an obscure Russian poet, an émigré who writes in English, not Russian. She’s hoping simply being here in this city where she met her husband twenty-five years ago in the mid-seventies will somehow diminish the emptiness, fill the vacuum.
Short Story
Issue 75
Lettie
He left her with six children, a few acres of poor farm clay, no money, and a house plain and sturdy. “You’ll have to send them away, Lettie,” the relatives told her. “There’s an orphanage over in Masonville. You can’t keep them.” They told her this when he was barely gone, his body cold but not yet in the ground.
Long Short Story
Issue 46
Molly Seale
Molly Seale has published memoir, essays, short stories and poems in a variety of publications, including Hippocampus Magazine, Hotel Amerika, New Millennium Writings, Connotation Press, Into the Sun, and The Write Launch. She hold an MFA in Theatre from The University of Texas, Austin and lives in Makanda, Illinois.
A Widow’s Mind
Lorrie Blue has been widowed for five years. She is bathed in sadness—a trigger to a relentless, dark hole, a vacuum of emptiness that won’t, can’t leave her. She is freshly arrived in Austin, Texas, where she will deliver a paper on a panel on the work of an obscure Russian poet, an émigré who writes in English, not Russian. She’s hoping simply being here in this city where she met her husband twenty-five years ago in the mid-seventies will somehow diminish the emptiness, fill the vacuum.
Short Story
Issue 75
Lettie
He left her with six children, a few acres of poor farm clay, no money, and a house plain and sturdy. “You’ll have to send them away, Lettie,” the relatives told her. “There’s an orphanage over in Masonville. You can’t keep them.” They told her this when he was barely gone, his body cold but not yet in the ground.
Long Short Story
Issue 46