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Katy E. Ellis |
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Poetry. Stories. |
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Chlorine (fiction excerpt) | Zoomazium (poetry) |
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Infatuated with the smell of the fountain outside City Hall, the narrator, a tired office worker at the end of a long day, has run into an old family friend. At the same time, an elderly man has approached the women to ask their help in finding his wife, an 80 year-old-woman who has lost her memory. The speaker wormed her way out of the situation and got on the bus for home… |
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Chlorine |
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Zoomazium |
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Work Samples |
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They wheeled in the Mystery Animal on a covered cart made to look like a hollow log, lid knotted at the handle with polyester birch sprigs. Children scuttled away from the underbellies of elephant sculptures, emerged from caves that air videos of cascading lava, and threw down the African Village’s weary set of toddler bongo drums to touch the creature now parked under the molded plastic tree. |