Sena Jeter Naslund: My mother, Flora Lee Sims Jeter, born in 1901, and I, an early teen, lounge on the summer bedspread as the attic fan draws in cool (for Birmingham) night breezes; we’re reading our separate books (Dickens, David Copperield for me, again), she chuckles, and I ask her, “What’s so […]
Flora K. Schildknecht
Flora K. Schildknecht holds an MFA from Spalding University. Her fiction has appeared in The Louisville Review, 2nd & Church, The Chaffin Journal and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She currently teaches English and playwriting at Bellarmine University. A collection of her short stories by Fleur-de-Lis press is scheduled for release in 2018.
Bad Signs
I’m fascinated by the changeable nature of what we perceive as normal behavior and by our willingness to accept abnormal behavior in the name of love and attachment. Does creating a unique relationship inevitably imply shunning some notions of the normal, and to what extent can the human psyche survive the dismantling of boundaries? Watching the angular shape […]