Rebecca Clouse lives in Iowa City, where she completed her education after Chicago and New Haven. “A Patient” comes from Under Canine, a novel in progress; two excerpts appeared in On the Seawall (October 2022, November 2023) and a third in The Woven Tale Press (October 2023). Clouse’s previous writings, some pseudonymous (as Zed Ander and Zaarcluz), as well as her visual art, have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Prose Poem, Mystics Quarterly, and Essays in Medieval Studies.
Fiction
Winter 2025
A Patient
When dusk began lowering and the daylight ebbed as calmly as tide, and domestic lamps cast oblongs of pale illumination on lawns and sidewalks and driveways — when tree frogs started chirping, […]