Left Quotes

“traffic, which made her drum faster and harder, and then I felt it coming like a volcano about to erupt, the letters, mostly A’s and R’s sitting inside the rounds of my cheeks, readying themselves to pop out. Big and unwieldy, making my lips ache, but then just as they were about to slip past, Matilda reached”
― Tamar Ossowski, Left

“squeezed her hand tighter and she turned toward the window. I tried not to think about leaving our grandmother’s house or how our mother stuffed our things into garbage bags that got so big and misshapen,”
― Tamar Ossowski, Left