Patricia Canright Smith
Patricia Canright Smith’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Short Story America (awarded third prize), Jabberwock Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Mason’s Road Literary Journal (2014 Contest winner), and others. Her essay" 83 Problems, A-Z" was a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays, 2014, John Jeremiah Sullivan, editor.
Tommy’s Rats: The Old Woman Tries to Make Herself Useful
The old joke about Tommy was she was a social scientist without the social. Now she’s gone feral. She watches herself with detached interest, as though she were a subject in one of the studies she used to quantify. In … Continue reading