Paul Hansom has an MFA from the University of Southern California. His fiction has appeared in many reviews and journals, including New Letters, Chicago Quarterly, Crack the Spine,Gravel Magazine, and Lalitamba. He’s also been nominated for the Pushcart prize, a Sundance Institute Arts-Writing Fellowship, and has won the PEN/West John Rechy Fellowship. He lives and […]
Paul Hansom
Paul Hansom: Death Between Two Planes
He dies 10.30 their time, 4.30 mine. My cousin calls first with a repeated “I’m so sorry,” the word sorrysorrysorrysorry the only sense she can give me. Herself. As I listen, a freight train blows its mournful horn down in the valley. A bit of blues poetry to soften the onrushing facts: There are few […]