This short piece came out of a Smokelong Quarterly workshop led by Michael Czyzniejewski. It was selected by The Pine Cone Review for their dance-themed issue ‘Glissade’.
And Mary Answered
We dance under an almost-full moon, wearing only mud. Dancing by moonlight sounds like grace and ecstasy, but my skin itches; the river-silt must be crawling with microscopic bugs.
Fiction Writing by Patience Mackarness 