Gina Marie Bernard writes from her home in Bemidji, Minnesota, where she is a high school English teacher. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Apeiron Review, Appalachia, Collective Fallout,The Fieldstone Review, GlitterwolfMagazine, Meat for Tea, Milk Sugar,The Otherwise, OVS, andpacificREVIEW. She is the author of two young adult novels, Alpha Summerand Vent.
Faith is something I hold in the reliquary of my mouth, rolling it with my tongue, mindful of its potsherd frailty, certain instead of concrete memories of the bear, vivid despite the space of years nested away like field mice within the ossature of time, or rather what was a bear but now hung flensed and naked beneath the pale… Read more →