Ann Boaden obtained her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, and she taught literature and writing at Augustana College, Illinois. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, From Sac, Gingerbread House, Ginosko, Litbreak, Persimmon Tree, Pietisten, South Dakota Review, Time of Singing, Torrid Literature, and Windhover, among other journals.
I killed my grandmother. At her request. “I’ve researched it,” she said. “It’s not a bad way to shuffle off.” She grinned. “As far as dying goes.” She was in her late nineties. Everything about her was old except her mind. Understanding and intimacy had skipped a generation in our family. I swapped wary circumlocutions […]
