The Only Woman in the Room
At the Tazewell County Justice Center, on a Monday night in May, five women gather for a creative-writing class. They microwave plastic cups of instant coffee, then drag chairs up to the conference table where we’ll write.
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Sarah Marty-Schlipf
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Sarah Marty-Schipf's essays have appeared in The Broken Plate and The Bellingham Review. She currenty lives in rural central Illinois, where she works both as a writing and literature instructor for the YWCA and as a librarian. When she's not teaching, writing, or pushing good books, she's probably gardening, making art, or making mischief with her husband and her beagle.
The Stone of Help
My husband hunches over the table, picking at his quesadillas. I’m gulping the last of the water, dropping my plate in the sink with a clatter. An idea hangs in…