Sarah Freligh is the author of six books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Whirling Prize from the University of Indianapolis, and the recently-released A Brief Natural History of Women, from Harbor Editions. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), and Best Microfiction (2019-22). Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation.
Fluffy is boxed and ready to go, so all Lissa has to do is pay the ransom: four nights/five days in the boarding kennel and an unexpected fee for something called “comfort services” that’s a little more than half the cost of a tolerable bottle of white wine.
We’re bleeders or will be. This is what they tell us in a dark room, blinds drawn, rows of desks just so
