Summary: (http://media.clonepod.org/desert.jpg) PG-13 - not for young children! Read by Leslie Ann Moore Music by Robert Farmer Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald Ms Kelly received my MFA from Pacific University in 2006, and since leaving school, she has taught composition and fiction writing at Pacific. She has a short story appearing this summer in The Rose & Thorn. She was a finalist in a Glimmer Train short story contest in 2006, and in 2007 she won an artist residency at Caldera. In 1998 she was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook in Washington state, and in 1999, her short story "Scorched" was selected by Stephen King for his On Writing contest. After the cat died, time began to creep up on me. One day I set out to water and prune the tomato plants, and the next thing I knew I’d spent most of the day going through old clothes, shaking out the wrinkles and remembering when I last wore this dress, that blouse. In the trunk I also found a notebook. I don’t know how it got there, maybe scooped up in my last frenzy of packing. We are taught never to write anything down, not even directions or lists. I’ve obeyed this rule so well that I had to teach myself to hold a pen. You see, that was one way the cat helped. I wouldn’t have lasted a month out here without her, in the beginning.
