Friendship Street
There’s a line at the local post office on Friday morning.
“Everyone comes here,” says S., “cuz it’s a little one, they think they’ll be in and out.”
She tells a man with a dozen packages: “Leave them with me, come back later, and I’ll have the receipt for you. Trust me.”
She says God sent us to give her something to do.
'“I was cyber shopping,” she says, “God didn’t want me to spend all my money.”
We laugh, we praise her multi-tasking, her desire to save us time in line.
“It’s all Maxwell House,” she says, raising her mug.
I HAD SO MUCH FUN
reading and conversing with Raina Wellman at Unnameable Books on Wednesday night! I loved seeing so many friends in the audience, new and old, from near and far. Thank you for your love.
I can’t wait to share the rest of JUNCO & WOLF with you! The story will appear in the winter issue of A Public Space. In print! On paper! YES. Subscribe here.
Thank you, Theodore Heil and Yasmin Bashir, editorial fellows at A Public Space, for hosting and moderating; thank you, Brigid Hughes, Aditi Bhattacharjee, and everyone at A Public Space, for your support; thank you, Unnameable, for letting us gather in your lovely zen garden.
A Public Space’s mission is to “seek out overlooked and unclassifiable work, and to publish writing from beyond established confines.”
Finally, thank you to Ilya, my husband, who was very patient as I tore apart my office looking for my frayed twenty-year old pocket atlas of Moscow the morning of the reading. I did find it, but then completely forgot to show-and-tell it during Q&A.
& NEWS
My essay, “PROOF,” won Roxane Gay’s love letter contest, and will be published in The Audacity in the near future. Subscribe to The Audacity to get my essay in your inbox the day it goes live. Of course, I’ll link here.
My essay, “You’ll Know It When You Find It” (tentative title) will be published in spring 2026 in a collection of essays about searching for work, edited by Rachel Meade Smith. I had so much fun writing this one!
Rachel curates Words of Mouth, a weekly newsletter sharing opportunities for professional and creative development across design, the arts, education, information, and the built environment. If you’re looking for work, this is required reading.
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