Mother was a moon-faced woman. Her visage was not merely of lunar pallor or rounded, with Aleutian cheekbones; rather her head was a small luminous moon. The moon was said to have appeared suddenly at menarche, and was quite beautiful, especially at night. Hers was an unusual existence, of course, and most solitary. My father…Continue Reading “Moon Mother”
Author: Shelley Elkovich
Shelley Elkovich earned the MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in English literature from Wellesley College. She is an alumna of the Tin house workshop was awarded a Playa residency. Her house in Oregon is home to stacks of books—when her husband is away, she lets the books come up on his side of the bed and stay all night. Her fiction was published in the print literary journal The Flexible Persona, the Dr. TJ Eckleburg Review, and Ellipsis Zine. Shelley is working on a novel.