Not for sure. What we knew was that Eliot had ordered a telescope straight from China – not more than $200, we were shocked – and he had shown us – photographed...
Elissa Field's writing has been nominated for Pushcart, Best American and Best Small Fictions, with stories appearing in SmokeLong Quarterly, Fictive Dream, Conjunctions, Reckon Review, Citron Review, Monkeybicycle, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Hypertext, and elsewhere. She is a Submissions Editor for SmokeLong Quarterly. She has been a Fellow with SmokeLong and Story Studio Chicago; her novel drafts have been finalist or short/longlisted in awards with First Pages, Heekin Foundation, and James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She is querying a novel and compiling a story collection. Find her @elissafield or elissafieldthompson.com.