Mary Zelinka
Mary Zelinka lives in Albany, Oregon, and has worked at the Center against Rape and Domestic Violence for more than thirty years. She recently moved to a Mennonite retirement village, though she is not Mennonite and has no intention of retiring.
— From January 2023Long After
Long after we divorced, long after you died of alcoholism, I still remember that day when I stepped out of the clinic, blinked hard against tears, sank into your VW Bug, pulled the door shut, and whispered, “I’m pregnant.”
January 2023My Father’s Art
Photography suited my father, loner that he was. He’d come home from his job as an airline pilot, give Mother a peck on the cheek before changing out of his uniform, and drive off again with at least one of his three Rolleiflex cameras. When I was a child growing up in North Carolina during the early fifties, he’d acknowledge me only if I was in his direct path.
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