Kathy Hayes | The Sun Magazine

Kathy Hayes

Kathy Hayes is a freelance writer and former magazine editor. She lives with her husband, two sons, and an unruly hound in the Colorado foothills.

— From July 2000
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Punch Line

The last time my father takes a bath, my mother has to help him lower himself into the water. The melanoma that infests his body has made him gigantic. He is so bloated he looks like a woman nine months pregnant.

July 2000
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