“Unearthing the Secrets: What the Ashes Reveal About Our Past and Future”
We share a responsibility towards each other. It’s not easy. I’ve also looked away, telling myself that saying something would be intrusive. And I regret my cowardice. I know how hard it is to speak, to offer help. But just because it’s hard doesn’t mean we can’t act.
Alison Colwell is a single working mother of two teens with mental health challenges and a survivor of domestic abuse, all of which inform her creative writing. Her creative nonfiction can be found in the climate-fiction anthology Rising Tides, Folklife Magazine, The Fieldstone Review, The NonBinary Review, The Fourth River and in The Humber Literary Review, The Ocotillo Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and her fiction in Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, Crow & Cross Keys and Tangled Locks Journal. She lives on a small emerald island in the Salish Sea.
Post Comment