Kellie Wells was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for her collection of short fiction, Compression Scars. She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for emerging women writers. “Digesting the Father” is an excerpt from her novel Skin, forthcoming in 2006 from the University of Nebraska Press. She teaches in the creative writing program at Washington University in St. Louis.
Fiction
Autumn 2005
Digesting the Father
Such a woman is the infected carrier of the past—before her the structure of our head and jaws ache—we feel that we could eat her, she who is eaten death […]
Fiction
Summer 2014
Moon, Moon, My Honey
My husband was in charge of the Nightly Improbable Joke, broadcast punctually every evening at 10:05 p.m., the world’s appetite for improbability peaking, he calculated, just before bedtime. One night […]
Fiction
Winter 2012
The Rising Girl
After Dino Buzzati Matilda was tall. Feet big and attentive as wolfhounds, flattening the groomed grass in front of the skyscraper, she peered into a third-story window then looked at […]
Fiction
Spring 2002
Secession, XX
On the thirteenth day following fertilization, “we” found “ourselves” with three x’s and a y to work with, so it didn’t take brain surgeons, or even budding geneticists, for […]
Kellie Wells
Kellie Wells is the author of a collection of short fiction, Compression Scars, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, and two novels, Skin and Fat Girl, Terrestrial. She teaches in […]