Confessions Of A Falling Woman And Other Stories

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Some of these stories have appeared previously in the following magazines and anthologies: "The Afterlife of Lyle Stone" in Writers' Forum; "What the Left Hand Is Saying" in The Seattle Review; "The Bodhisattva" in The Bellingham Review and the anthology Women's Struggles, Women's Visions; "The Queen Mother" in MidAmerican Review; and "Confessions of a Falling Woman" in Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. My thanks to these publications and their editors.

Thanks, also, to Chang-rae Lee, Ann Reeder, Garrett Hongo, and Tracy Daugherty.

Finally, my deep affection and gratitude to Marly Rusoff and Michael Radulescu, who have blessed me with their nurturing and expertise, and to Claire Wachtel, an editor of sensitivity, humor, and savvy. I'm lucky in you all beyond reason.

Only a mesh of ivy holds this old building upright, ropy veins lashing the fire escape precariously to its side. Wind rattles through the rotting window frames and the tub is in the kitchen, but the building is rent-controlled, so years can go by without a name changing on the buzzers downstairs. Still, before Tim the Puppet Boy arrived, I knew my neighbors in the way New Yorkers do, faces passed on the stairs, voices heard through the walls late at night. In fact, I didn't know a soul in the city. But I'm an only child and the child of only children, and was accustomed to being alone. I wouldn't have called myself lonely.

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