Keywords
creative writing, essays, The Ache that Blankets the World
Document Type
Essay
Description
And it came to him then that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect. —Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the 1980s. At ten or eleven, I’m skinny, long limbed, and hovering in the space between the deserted dining room table and my uncle’s glass-doored gun cabinet, hoping to sneak another slice of banana cream pie. Instead, I overhear my grandma and my aunt arguing in the tired kitchen behind the yellowing Formica countertop.
Recommended Citation
Hogan, Kristen
(2024)
"The Ache that Blankets the World,"
Inscape: Vol. 44:
No.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol44/iss1/13