The longer he waited, the angrier he became, until he’d had enough, he told Audrey from his hospital bed. She imagined her eighty-one year old father’s fury—his fierce scowl, the way his pink cheeks turned a bright, flaming red. She knew that face too well.
Author
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Kathleen Gibbons received two Pushcart Prize nominations for her 2021 fiction publications in Bellevue Literary Review and Air/Light Magazine. Her short stories were finalists in contests for American Short Fiction, The Sewanee Review, and Bellevue Literary Review. She was a fellow at BookEnds, the novel development program of Southampton Arts at Stony Brook University, and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is working on a novel set on California’s central coast, and lives in Los Angeles with her family.