Cathy Krizik’s writing has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Superstition Review, The Penmen Review, and is forthcoming in Rubbertop Review. When she’s not making a living as a magazine art director and career counselor, she’s writing—an adventure she wishes had begun before menopause. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA with her wife and two cats because you can’t be a lesbian without owning cats.
Cancer isn’t supposed to be good news. When you hear the word tucked up close to someone you love, the world is supposed to go dark as a curtain is drawn on the future. You’re supposed to collapse into a chair, slack-jawed and numb. But when Dr. Levine told me that my mother had cancer, my hand shot to my… Read more →