Marilyn Abildskov is the author of The Men In My Country (Sightline 2004). She has published recent short stories and essays in such literary journals as AGNI, The Sun, The Rumpus, and Southern Humanities Review. The recipient of fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Writers' Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Djerassi Writing Residency, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she teaches in the MFA Program at Saint Mary’s College of California.Goodness
My father died when I was ten. The events surrounding his death, as close as anyone could say afterward, went something like this: One morning in early September, just before daybreak, Ray Goren, our milkman, pulled over to the side of the dark road, planning to knock on Joe Sanders’ door. Smoke...
