From the digital vaults of The Wall Literary Journal, this short story etches time and space, I hope, into the heart and mind, and tacks them down with the face and fingers of the old, uncannily prayerful babushka.
I enjoyed writing this short piece immensely. The fact that an old mentor forwarded it to me today — newly digital in the college archives — was a good sign to post it.
READ:
https://schistory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/wall/id/2068
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C.J. Williams 