Lynn Mundell is editor of Centaur and co-founder of 100 Word Story. Her work has been published in The Sun, Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, Booth, Best Microfiction, and a W.W. Norton anthology. Her piece from Tin House was awarded a Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Lynn’s chapbook Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us was published by the University of South Carolina in 2022.
One of the first times I was born was during the plague. Miracle of miracles, I survived! But Maman died, and my sisters, then Papa, and our man Bertran. Finally, I had to go, too. There was no one left to feed me, and...