When Tabitha’s mother decided to do something, she did it all the way. It was a trait that Tabitha, who did most things part-way, or in nervous emulation of others, occasionally admired. Not, however, in this instance. Her mother had decided to fall in love, and now, one month later, here she was, in love. Her mother was in love with a man named Rich von Waldingham. They were passionately in love, Tabitha’s mother proclaimed. And yet Tabitha’s mother and Rich von Waldingham had never actually met.
Author: Joanna Pearson
Joanna Pearson's short stories have recently appeared (or are forthcoming) in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Carve, Copper Nickel, The Hopkins Review, Joyland, The Mississippi Review, as well as others, and one of her stories has been noted a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2015 and anthologized in Best of the Net 2016. She is also the author of a book of poetry, Oldest Mortal Myth (Story Line Press, 2012), winner of the 2012 Donald Justice Prize and the 2014 Towson University Prize for Literature, and a young adult novel, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011).