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Rose Lambert Sluder

Rose Lambert-Sluder

Rose Lambert-Sluder is from Asheville, North Carolina. She was recently a writer in residence at Ox-Bow School of Art, and her latest work appears in the Greensboro Review. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Nov/Dec 2018

Patience

By Rose Lambert-Sluder

Tomato aspic. It’s hard to botch up. You need pickling spices, tomato juice, diced celery ribs. Two packs of plain gelatin, or lemon Jell-O in a pinch, which my mother […]