Bowl
Photography by Amy Bobeda

"I'm interested in the way a coil pot becomes the hands that made it."
Amy Bobeda directs the Naropa Writing Center, where she also teaches pedagogy and process-based art. She's the author of Red Memory (FlowerSong Press), What Bird Are You? (Finishing Line Press) and some other things. 
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Milk Drunk

Fiction by T.L. Tomljanovic

CW: Disturbing Content, Mental Health, Abuse & Death of a Child


    The clock reads 1 a.m. You and me. The only ones still up. You’re snuggled against my breast. My foot presses a cracked floorboard rocking you. Clouds cover the moon and there are no stars to bear witness.
    It is not peaceful. 
    Your tiny teeth took more than milk. Your thrashing fists and paper-thin fingernails scratched sharp red lines across my neck and chest. I didn’t mean to. I don’t remember shaking you so hard, but you’re finally, blessedly, still. My cracked nipples drip onto your cooling onesie. Sleep deprivation slips toward intoxication. I pretend that you’re just sleeping and that I’m still a good mother.
T.L. Tomljanovic is a freelance writer living in British Columbia, Canada. Her recent work received an honourable mention in the Off-Topic Publishing flash fiction contest, and was published in The Woolf and Sci-Fi Shorts. 
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