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dancing girl press, 2014
$7.00 Fae Dremock, a native Texan, holds an MA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins and is currently a doctoral student in Literature and Creative Writing at the Center for Writers. She taught for two years at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. In the fall, she will be an Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Ithaca College. She recently received an AWP Intro Award in Fiction. Follow the white rabbit decode the spider web ride a red maple leaf down river past all the dandelions of childhood swallow the Easter duck pluck the eyes out of the dog swing the cat by its tail against the trunk of an tree stab the four-year-old girl in her bed watch as the man shoots his head off in a paneled van screw your five-year-old brother in the backyard hedges the house has no breakfast nook, no mud room the house has grease-coated counters a world book encyclopedia an aqua couch, where the woman sits quietly a brown vinyl chair where the man who hid his small torn books on the top shelf in the bathroom watched tv and in a room off the side, a small twin bed, under which the child sleeps and the dandelions bloom ## |