1 Childless and widowed, I slide into bed like a bug that scuttles away to escape getting stomped. I am not a bug but I am flattened. By loneliness, worry, missing my boy, now grown….
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Melanie S. Smith is a 2018 graduate of the GrubStreet memoir incubator. Her work has been published in Cagibi, Chatauqua, and Raven’s Perch and featured in the 2023 issue of Ms. Aligned, an anthology of notable writing by women. She teaches writing at Boston University.