Thomas Gibbs‘s essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Florida Review, Brevity, and Zone 3. His prose and poetry has appeared in Dos Passos Review, Stone Canoe, Hospital Drive, The Healing Muse, Etude, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Thunder Musing in the Art of Medicine, and others. He supports his writing by practicing Ob-Gyn.
Summer 2012
The Nigerian Dentist’s Cousin
I placed the distal blade of the mayo scissors through the bean-sized opening at the bottom of her mutilated genitals. It was as though my patient’s bottom had been set […]