A Plate of Pandemic
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Sally Ventura lives and teaches in Olean, New York. She has published in The Blue Collar Review, The English Journal, The English Record, Sisyphus, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, College Association Critic, Earth’s Daughters, and Midwest Quarterly. She is a past-president of the New York State English Council, and previous associate editor of The English Record.
Her son doesn’t turn around when she calls after him, her voice startling the blue jays at the feeder and a pair of chipmunks hiding among the stalks of last year’s peonies, scarlet buds just emerging through the black dusk-dewed mulch; it echoes like the flickering street lights, each syllable captured frame by frame. He walks away […]