Kareem’s real name was Jackson Smith. He was tall and thin with skin the color of an oak tree’s bark. He had a habit of touching all the time – a shoulder, an arm, my back. It made me uncomfortable, but for awhile I still had hope that the military’s housing arrangement would work […]
Patricia Hanahoe-Dosch
Pat Hanahoe-Dosch has an MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and is currently a Professor of English at a Pennsylvania community college. Her story, “Sighting Bia,” was selected as a finalist for A Room of Her Own Foundation's 2012 Orlando Prize for Flash Fiction. Short stories of hers have been published in The Peacock Journal, In Posse Review, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Two books of her poems, The Wrack Line, and Fleeing Back, can be found on Amazon.com or the FutureCycle Press website. Her poems have been published in Rattle, The Paterson Literary Review, The Atticus Review, War, Art and Literature, Confrontation, Apt, among many others. You could read more of her work by going to her blog at http://pathanahoedosch.blogspot.com. Check her out on twitter @PHanahoeDosch.