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Alethea Black’s debut collection of short stories is I Knew You’d Be Lovely. Her father was a mathematician, and she used to believe that her name, Greek for “truth,” was his nod to the idea of absolutes. She later discovered that her parents got the name from a TV show. She lives in Pauling, New York.
There isn’t really a reset button for life — a switch you can hit, after you’ve gone through something terrible, that lets you go back to the beginning and start over. But there should be.
November 2018My sister’s husband died recently, and sorrow has made her a little girl again. Although she’s thirty-nine, I keep catching glimpses of her little-girl face, the one I know from old photographs and junior-high yearbooks.
September 2012Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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