Thomas Allen’s most recent exhibition, Paint by Numbers, was shown at the Foley Gallery. His work has also appeared in Nautilus, the Atlantic, and elsewhere.
I am five years old and wandering aimlessly around the living room with a brown piece of molded plastic in front of my eyes. I’m trying to find the “good” light, so I stagger from lamp to window and back again. It’s like watching a moth danci [...]
The summer of 1989, shortly after my second husband and I married, we buckled my two daughters, who were seven and three, into the rear seat of a used car purchased for cash. We told no one where we were going. We meant to disappear.
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