Rachel Taube
Bio
My writing has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, Cleaver Magazine, and The Millions. I won the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award, and I have been a C.D. Wright / Nan Snow Emerging Writer and a Tent Creative Writing Fellow.
Stories (1/0)
Stickers and Blooms
Marissa kept her magic in the notebooks. She had a row of ten of them, the warm black covers lined up on her shelf, a record of everything she’d done and felt for two years. She started writing in a journal when her mother got very sick, when it felt like her stomach was eating itself and it hurt to open her jaw. The writing helped: she’d describe what she felt, and, when she couldn't write about herself anymore, she wrote what she saw, and what she wanted, and she wrote little stories about the people at the bus stop in the mornings on her way to work at the grocery story: the man with the stained ties, the old woman with her rolling basket, the sparrow that seemed to greet her and bathed himself in the dewy grass.
By Rachel Taube3 years ago in Families
