I find her in back, mid-game
around the table, playing
two cards at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O-9, N-17, G-46\u2026
Mini packets of Cracker Jack
are today\u2019s prize. She has won<\/p>\n\n\n\n
three already. Her sweet tooth, suppressed
for decades, now thrives on jelly beans
and ice cream. She doesn\u2019t remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n
it\u2019s junk we don\u2019t eat in this house.
As cards are called\u2026 B-29. I-43. N-17\u2026
she full-on concentrates. Not long ago,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when invited to play, she had sneered,
For losers. It was awful
when, between reading the Times,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
completing the Sunday crossword
and discussing politics, she could still track
her memory loss, could still reflect<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on her own mind. Now, like the child
she never allowed herself to be, she thrills
over a complete row of plastic coins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should break my heart. But
it\u2019s so much easier to love her
this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find her in back, mid-gamearound the table, playingtwo cards at once. O-9, N-17, G-46\u2026Mini packets of Cracker Jackare today\u2019s prize. She has won three already. Her sweet tooth, suppressedfor decades, now thrives on jelly beansand ice cream. She doesn\u2019t remember it\u2019s junk we don\u2019t eat in this house.As cards are called\u2026 B-29. I-43. N-17\u2026she … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-U4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lynn Cohen\u2019s novel, A Terrible Case of Beauty, was published by Trebol Press in 2013. She received a Best of the Net nomination from Apricity Magazine in 2023. Lynn has attended various writing conferences, including the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference and the Columbia University Summer Writers\u2019 Workshop. After a brief tenure in the Jerusalem Symphony Radio Orchestra, Lynn received a Bachelors in Music from the New England Conservatory of Music, concentrating in double bass performance.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"