Sydney Koeplin Later, they will debate who saw the snake first. The girls won’t agree on whose shout warned of the danger in the water, though Renee will insist that whoever it was screamed like a …

Sydney Koeplin “I think we should have claws.” “Pinchers.” “Fangs!” “Fur.” We threw our ingredients into the twenty-gallon plastic tub we’d stolen from the Galliones’ backyard and dragged into the woo...

The first time my mother takes my oldest sister down into the embalming room, I am hidden away upstairs, staring at my ceiling. My sister has just returned home from getting her degree in mortuary …

by Jane Wageman