Andrea Reshem | The Sun Magazine

Andrea Reshem

Andrea Reshem has moved from the Land of Ten Thousand Quakes to the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, where she continues to write and dream. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

— From June 1991
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Quaking

The landfill under the office where I work holds the decomposed bones of old ships and piers, derelicts not worth repairing, sunk in the harbor. Our building has piles sunk straight down to bedrock, supposed to keep us standing when the ground all around quivers and liquefies.

June 1991
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