Ash Malloy

When you become your mother's sister.

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May 14th, 2013. Part I.

I know I haunt their bed.

I Wanted You To Hear it From Me

It’s the first Sunday in August when suddenly, after sweltering weeks of more soggy bottoms than on an early season episode of Great British Bake Off, we are finally reimbursed. What I affectionately call nothing weather has cooled the world into a softly frozen tableau: no traceable seams from inside to outside, as pleasantly unremarkable as a tepidari…

Wine Cellar Secret

But what my mom is sharing is a wine cellar secret. Nearly folkloric with age. Something you have to climb down into yourself to carry back upstairs to everyone, tightly corked and cloaked with dust. Watching everyone’s faces flicker between anticipation and its fraternal twin, dread.