So excited and grateful that my story “Conversation with Gertrude in Car, Age 20” was nominated for a Pushcart. This story germinated out of grief and confusion and a desire to structure something unnamable.
Huge thanks to the North American Review for their support!
no i wasn’t, i was learning how to make a puttanesca sauce in case my siblings and i ever needed to cook a dinner for a dastardly villain and his evil theatre troupe
During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.
The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’
Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’