“When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing,” the author Yiyun Li writes in her memoir, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, “but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.”
It’s the first week of October and we’re hearing writing along the theme of haunted this month. Today, Natanya Biskar shares a story excerpt by Corrina Vallianatos, titled "Posthumous Fragments of Veronica Penn.” Vallianatos is author of the novel The Beforeland, and two celebrated story collections, Origin Stories and My Escapee, which won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.
Something I Heard is supported by Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
