Patti Witten

Patti Witten is a former staff writer at Cornell University, also known as an award-winning singer and songwriter, graphic artist, and book illustrator. She has a B.A. in American History from Ithaca College, a cat named Mena, and an Airbnb in the country near Ithaca, New York.

Lowlands

Cynthia had withdrawn, wrapped in a shroud of bedsheets, exhausted by weeping. In the darkened room, sounds were somehow louder — the rain, a car swishing by on the street, the faint barking of a neighbor’s dog. Water dripping from the eaves and mumbling in the downspout beside the open window. Six days since Maylin drowned. Tomorrow they would bury her.

Patti Witten

Patti Witten is a former staff writer at Cornell University, also known as an award-winning singer and songwriter, graphic artist, and book illustrator. She has a B.A. in American History from Ithaca College, a cat named Mena, and an Airbnb in the country near Ithaca, New York.

Lowlands

Cynthia had withdrawn, wrapped in a shroud of bedsheets, exhausted by weeping. In the darkened room, sounds were somehow louder — the rain, a car swishing by on the street, the faint barking of a neighbor’s dog. Water dripping from the eaves and mumbling in the downspout beside the open window. Six days since Maylin drowned. Tomorrow they would bury her.

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