Christine Imperial

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Eliza I. Gilbert |Christine Imperial |Peter Kazon

After the fire it rains dandelions and we wear the fall like coats of paint on some small immortal toolshed. The game is this: You are a snake charmer. I am a pine cone. No tag-backs. Our father knows Latin but forgets that a burnt tongue is a temporary death sentence. So we stay outside. In the game.

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Emily Elaine Doyle |Christine Imperial |Peter Kazon

Emily Doyle’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares (spring 2024), The Sun (winter 2023), Epiphany (winter 2023), and elsewhere. Doyle was a finalist in the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest and for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Bread Loaf–Rona Jaffe Foundation Participation Scholarship and the Abraham Lincoln Polonsky Endowed Award.