Pat Hulsebosch

Pat Hulsebosch is a queer Pippi Longstocking wanna-be writing about cultures and identities in a never-boring life of teaching and learning. Her recent work has appeared in Columbia Journal, Halfway Down the Stairs, and Furious Gravity, Grace & Gravity, Vo. IX. She lives with her wife, Lynda, in Florida, Chicago and the DC Metro area.

Just Listening

“I can’t. I can’t open this car door,” wails seven-year old Samantha, hand tugging awkwardly – ineffectively – on the inside handle of her parents’ bulky old Suburban station wagon. I was in Florida for a weekend visit from Chicago. We’d spent the morning at Lowry Park Zoo. Although it wasn’t quite naptime, both of us were a little worn from an overabundance of orangutans and ostriches on a hot tropical day.