I ask the boys to send me pictures, and then I build their faces. They show me family portraits in parlors, hair slicked from severe center partings, and military snapshots in uniforms brown and crisp as paper...
Resurrection in Clay
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Ali McLafferty
Ali McLafferty got her PhD in History and taught at UC Berkeley before moving to Austin, Texas, where she now teaches high school. Her work is forthcoming in The Forge; her flash fiction and artwork have appeared in Flash Frog; her short stories won her 3rd place overall in the Writer's Workshop Writers' Games; and her novel-in-progress was a finalist for Unleash Press’s WIP Prize. She’s also a gardener, mountain biker, artist, and aspiring green witch.