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sarah kain gutowski

Sarah Kain Gutowski: Chapter IX: The Children    Find Her Sleeping

December 20, 2016 by PBQ

On waking, she found a pair of small hands cupped her cheeks. The little girl’s face had replaced the moon, and her brother orbited, making small, impatient sighs and grunts as he tried to find, in that cramped space, a better view. The girl moved her hands from the woman’s cheeks and ran a finger […]

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Sarah Kain Gutowski: Chapter VIII: She Removes the Stitches

December 20, 2016 by PBQ

The fire in the hearth sparked and fumed. The clocks struck the hour in one long reprimand, their faces closed to further discussion. They ticked the seconds begrudgingly. The whole room seemed angry, as if each object mourned her loss of the little bird, its potential friendly noise and chaos, its brief disruption of stasis […]

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Sarah Kain Gutowski: Chapter VII: She Grows    a Second Heart

December 20, 2016 by PBQ

That night she woke to find another oddity: during sleep her heart had split or twinned itself, and where one muscle pumped before, now beat two. Her blood coursed through her veins twice as fast as before, and over those paths her skin buzzed and stammered, like wire strung tautly between two poles and charged […]

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Sarah Kain Gutowski: Chapter VI: The Children    Have a Request

December 20, 2016 by PBQ

The season stretched itself thin, weakened by storms and heat. Inside the damp, shadowy space of the children’s fort, the woman with the frog tongue wove baskets and bowls with tight, interlocked laces, while her silk stitches began to fray and lengthen. The gap between her lips widened to where the children could see the […]

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Sarah Kain Gutowski

December 19, 2016 by PBQ

Sarah Kain Gutowski is the author of Fabulous Beast: The Sow, a chapbook published by Hyacinth Girl Press, and an Associate Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College. Her work has been published in Verse Daily, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Epiphany, The Threepenny Review, So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language […]

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