Lana Spendl’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, World Literature Today, The Rumpus, New Ohio Review, and other journals. She is the author of a chapbook of fiction and serves on staff at Crab Creek Review. Her childhood was divided between Bosnia and Spain prior to her immigration to the States. Read more of her work at lanaspendl.com/writing and at Weekend House and Family in the Foreign World.
The docents show the two mediums, a woman and her boyfriend, the coins left on the governor’s writing desk and the turned-over top hat in the lobby. The mediums tread carefully, heel to toe, over dark floorboards. When they rest eyes on the water spot on the ceiling, they give the impression of turning their gaze inwards in search of… Read more →
A careful man in a black coat walked into the main office for the Department of Psychological Sciences and notified the secretary that the toilet on the fourth floor had overflowed. The man gesticulated with long fingers, describing the problem with as much delicacy as the situation allowed.(1) The elderly secretary, Dolores, nodded and asked questions. (2) Her years on… Read more →