“There Were Only”

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Click here to read “There Were Only” by Carol Smallwood.

Carol Smallwood is the author of Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences (Lamar University Press 2014), and In Hubble’s Shadow (forthcoming from Shanti Arts); she is also the co-editor, with Christine Redman-Waldeyer, of Writing After Retirement (Rowman & Littlefield 2014). Her work has been published in RHINO, Drunken Boat, World Literature Today, The Fear of Monkeys, and Hospital Drive. She received an MLS in library science from Western Michigan University, and now a retired librarian, she works as an editor. She lives in Michigan.