Rosalie Morales Kearns is a writer of Puerto Rican and Pennsylvania Dutch descent, with short stories and poems published in Painted Bride Quarterly, Specs, Natural Bridge, and other journals. Her short story collection, Virgins and Tricksters, is forthcoming from Aqueous Books in 2012. She has taught creative writing at SUNY Albany and the University of Illinois.
The Associated Virgins
The Incident, as we’ll call it, gave Elihu Wingate a few weeks of notoriety among his fellow psychologists. We know it’s hard to imagine, a gentle soul like Elihu Wingate the object of gossip up and down the West Coast. “You’ve seen articles like this, in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s. The reporters follow...
