The World Doesn’t Wait for the Dead
A Survivor’s Guide was born from trauma. The world broke and what I was able to sweep up dwells in this story: a bunker sheltering the ugly knot of grief and the desperate need for security and knowledge in the presence of horror. When I wrote this story, I had ... Read More
A Survivor’s Guide
BY Natanya Ann Pulley | It’s all under the wrapping paper. In the downstairs guest room closet. Somewhere Elisse’s husband would never find it because unlike Elisse, he could never get the wrapping paper to surrender to the corners of any box with that willing crease and easy smoothing out ... Read More
The Makers
Natanya Pulley | I thought I made those lips. You small and new to my arms. “She has your nose” everyone saying to your mother, and to me, “those lips. Those lips.” ... Read More