Shauna Seliy is the author of the novel When We Get There (Bloomsbury, 2007). Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, the New Orleans Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and The New York Times.
When Marg lived in the house, there was a whole other house in the basement where her grandparents lived in the summer. They were from Ireland, the McCabes. They were royalty, Marg thought. That’s how she felt about them.