She Would Leave Her Heart
She left two button-down shirts, pressed and folded, size large, and a promise from the landlord to deliver the package if her son returned. She left a birthday card: slid into a cubby at the…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Allison Vrbova
Allison Vrbova holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from Western Washington University. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Under the Gum Tree, Drunken Boat, Fourth River, Hunger Mountain Journal and Green Mountains Review, among others. She is a recipient of a 2023 Artist Trust GAP Grant in support of the manuscript-in-progress for her first full-length essay collection. “She Would Leave Her Heart” is the title essay in this collection. She lives in Bellingham with her husband and two children.