I never told you this, but the day after my mother died, I ate her unfinished red velvet birthday cake. The whole of it. ~ Evelyn Krieger

A strangely thrilling collaborative writing exercise

Hello, hello, friends.

Please enjoy this strange, extraordinary, affecting collage-style piece constructed (well, sort of, anyway) in the tradition of an Exquisite Corpse during our recent Writing in the Dark Live Salon on Zoom. Thank you to the thirty or so writers who joined us—we spent a marvelous 40 minutes together in creative collaboration.

To note,…