story: Brownies
author: ZZ Packer
year: 2000
where: Bologna, a slurp- un caffè piccolo (redundancy necessary!)
note: from the collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, which is 1/3 of my life
a line: “I thought of those dresses she wore, faded and old, yet so pressed and clean; I then saw the poverty in them, I then could imagine her mother, cleaning the houses of others, returning home, weary.”
samantha Neugebauer 