Ross McMeekin's fiction has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Storyglossia, Connotation Press, Monkeybicycle, Used Furniture Review Necessary Fiction, and Fractured West. He is the assistant fiction editor at Hunger Mountain and an MFA candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in his hometown, Seattle.
Two of my family members recently passed away within a few months of each other. The loss burrowed into my fingertips; for a while pretty much every draft or story…