Author: Katherine Nazzaro
Katherine Nazzaro is a Boston resident and bookseller. She has loved Greek mythology since she was a child, which influences a lot of her writing. In her spare time, she volunteers at her local library, forgets the name of every book she’s ever read and enjoyed, and changes her mind twice a minute.
A Heart, Left Too Long in the Open
Sometimes I leave conversations, saymy mother is calling—although I have no mother—muscle memory of a lie that I have never quite been able to leave behind. It’sthe tap of a doctor’s hammer on my knee. Excuse meone moment, my mother’s calling. The phone not even ringing, just held limp in my hand.The way her hand …