She doesn’t need the gift of vision to predict the futures of people captured in forty year-old photographs. It’s even easier when the photos are sixty or seven...
My friend’s mother is coming to pick me up for a sleepover so I need to quickly disguise who I really am. I spritz myself with grapefruit-lime body spray to mas...
Janelle Bassett’s writing appears in The Offing, American Literary Review, The Rumpus, Southern Humanities Review, Porter House Review, Slice Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. She lives in St. Louis and reads fiction for Split Lip Magazine. You can find her online at www.janellebassett.com and on Twitter @hazmatcat.