Nearly 150 of Sandra Kolankiewicz's poems and stories have appeared in journals over the past thirty-five years, most recently appearing in New World Writing, Fifth Wednesday, Per Contra, Pif, Prick of the Spindle, Gargoyle, and Bellingham Review. Turning Inside Out won the Fall Black River Competition from Black Lawrence Press. Blue Eyes Don't Cry won the Hackney Award for the Novel. The Way You Will Go is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She teaches at a community college in West Virginia.
We were all afraid to get near until my sister poked him. He didn’t move, had somehow made it through the woods and fields in a blizzard to find our front porch. We used the shovel to scoop him and carried him inside, the flames low by then. Had we not burned the extra wood, he might never have woken,… Read more →