Monday, November 17th, 2008
“Conspiracy” by Sophia Rivkin
Sophia Rivkin CONSPIRACY The husband calls from two hundred miles away to say he cannot stand it, his wife is dying in a rented hospital bed in their living room and he must put her away, somewhere, anywhere, in a nursing home and she is crying looking up at him through the bars like a [...]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
“Man, Boy, Dog” by Sophia Rivkin
Sophia Rivkin MAN, BOY, DOG As a boy he tortured frogs, turtles turned upside down so their feet struggled in the air as they dried out. My friend was his second wife. He told her he ran away because his father beat him, joined the Marines, later became a policeman. They had a dog named [...]
