Terese Brasen

Terese Brasen is the author of the novel KAMA, published March 2016 by Outpost19. KAMA is a feminist novel that explores the Viking trade of slave women in tenth-century Europe. She is a graduate of the Pan-European MFA in Creative Writing from Cedar Crest College in PA, where she studied with author and educator Fred Leebron.

The Radio

In 1974, my mother and Richard Nixon developed thrombosis. By that time, the old radio was broken, and she relied on a square transistor about the size of a jar. First Nixon resigned. My mother dialled into the news to hear his crackly yet smooth voice: “By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.”
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