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Terry Eicher

Terry Eicher’s prose and poetry have appeared in Narrative (winner of the Winter 2015 Story Contest), Southwest Review (winner of the 2015 Marr Poetry Prize), Agni Online, Subtropics, the North American Review, and The New York Times. His long poem, “Uses of the Baobab,” was winner of the Finishing Line Open Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming as a chapbook. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Winter 2016

The Sick Nurse

By Terry Eicher

A young woman watching beside a sickbed in a torment of anxiety. Twenty-one and ready to begin her life, she nursed her cousin, Harriet Gilley, who was dying. She was […]