by Kathleen Raygoza
Our move from Alabama to Alaska at the start of the pandemic was a big deal, and as brief Alaska summer faded to fall, I translated my travel notes into stories. The people loved it. They requested a podcast. I acquiesced.
With his back to our cubed mess of belongings, Zach lowered the UHaul door and secured our household goods with the combination lock from my Flathead High School days. I pitied any fool desperate enough to unlock and simultaneously unleash 12,000 pounds worth of stuff. “We won’t need to check if anything’s shifted. That’s for […]
MoreMontgomery, Alabama is haunted. By lonesome whippoorwills among the whisperings and the camellias and the pines. Steepled shadows on Dexter Avenue and the cold bronze likeness of the little woman who started it all. On her corner she stands no tired bone in her body, demurely resistant. Hank by the Riverboat emulates the blue spirit […]
MoreI look back now and see the lesson unfurl like some faded map. For a girl wired to plot and plan and see the thing through to the exhausted end, weeks of no move date and a route still to-be-determined primed me for one of two possible responses: to rise, or stumble again through a […]
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