My creative nonfiction essay “Riley and Lucille” appears in the May 2023 issue of The Blue Mountain Review (pp. 155-158), published by The Southern Collective Experience. Written on the eve of surgery to save my right eye, “Riley and Lucille” ponders how my habit of naming ailing body parts is a tool to confront, communicate, laugh about, and adapt to the physical challenges of aging. Read more in MEMOIR.

The Southern Collective Experience publishes The Blue Mountain Review

Why writers write: “Fiction is like listening to someone’s heartbeat through a stethoscope. Memoir is like open-heart surgery and holding someone’s heart in your hands.” – Maya Shanbhag Lang
so how fo i download your essays you are amazing
Hi Susan — Click on the link in the post to The Blue Mountain Review May 2023 issue. The essay cannot be downloaded as a separate document but if you go to pp. 155-158 you can read it online. You may need to zoom in to a larger magnification.