LAURA MAFFEI
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Fiction:
"As High as the Pyramids"
The Westchester Review,
Summer 2022
Kevin McGrath was the first to step off the school bus. He stopped, stared, and murmured to himself. The other kids swarmed past him, not noticing or caring that the Intermediate School 51 Annex—its full name—looked exactly like a prison . . .
"Cabinet Jesus"
Evening Street Review,
Number 31, Autumn 2021, pp. 91-100.
Last night I talked my parents into going to the late-morning Mass. "Is that what
they teach you in college?" my father asked. "To sleep late?" . . .
"The Bracelet"
Touchstone Literary Magazine
,
Spring 2021
Loretta's mother's gold charm bracelet hung on a stranger's wrist...
"The Ferry"
La Piccioletta Barca
,
Issue 22
Wrapped in a milk-thick fog, the ferry seemed to exist alone in the universe...
"Cat in the Road, 1978"
Sangam
Literary Magazine, Fall 2020
The two girls sat on the curb in front of Annemarie
’
s house with
their white
-
toed sneakers flat on the asphalt and their denim knees up
against their chests...
In print only:
“No Respecter of Lines.”
The Halcyone
,
vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 17-20.
Poetry:
drops from her umbrella
(tanka poetry)
Inkling Press, Edmonton, Canada, 2006
Halloween
Infant Batman
in my arms
barely aware of this world
that needs saving
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