Karen Laws is a past contributor to Midway whose flash fiction about family life and beyond may also be found in Ghost Parachute, X-R-A-Y, and most recently, in Cleaver Magazine.
Sunday morning, we sprinkled some of Dad’s ashes in the upper Gallatin River. We all said nice things during the ceremony, but after we finished and Tyler had rinsed out the Ziploc bag, he and his wife Jen kept talking about how “kind” Dad was. Each time they said that word it felt like a hard pinch. As the only… Read more →
After months of not being able to be in the same room together, due to mutual fury and recrimination, my sister-in-law and I met for a walk on the beach. Separate cars. She was on time, I arrived late, a reversal of our usual pattern that possibly boded well. How to start? Should we look for shells? The sand dollars… Read more →