Category: Spring 2018

New York-based painter Natalie Frank was born in Austin, Texas in 1980. She earned an M.F.A. in visual arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2006 and holds a B.A. in studio art from Yale University.

Georgette fired her rifle into the dark of the woods around her home, and she heard the woman scream and the rush of leaves as she collapsed in the underbrush.

That the woman’s grown son had never noticed her misshapen knees puzzled me that day, and continues to do so.

All week, a hot, dry, wind had been blowing into L.A. from the desert.  Inside our Hollywood bungalow, half a block up from Highland Avenue, my parents slid past each other, silent, their backs to the wall.

Despite the terror of sleep, Gene had to fight the urge to drop back into the obliteration of the couch. Delia was right, about his cries.