My son puts on a bad guy hat and a bad guy shirt. His bad guy shoes make big bad echoes in the empty house.
I am a bad guy, he tells me.
I will pretend to...
Frances Klein (she/her) is an Alaskan poet and teacher. She is the 2022 winner of the Robert Golden Poetry Prize. Klein is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including “(Text) Messages from The Angel Gabriel” (Gnashing Teeth Press, 2024). Her full length collection Another Life is forthcoming in 2025. Klein’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Microfiction, The Harvard Advocate, The Atticus Review, HAD, and others. She can be found on twitter and instagram as @fklein907