Author

Robyn L. Murphy

Robyn L. Murphy is an MFA graduate from the University of Pittsburgh who recently relocated from Pittsburgh to the egret-infested marshes of Connecticut. Her fiction has appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review, the Cream City Review, Parting Gifts, Barbaric Yawp and Gertrude. [2007]

CONTRIBUTIONS

Fiction

Dec 01 2007

Necessary Parts

Mom told me about the diagnosis when we were sitting on a beach in North Carolina. My wife, Helen, had just left to take the puppy for one last run, and I realized that her convenient departure had been prearranged by the way she glanced back at us, biting her lower lip that way she does when she’s worried.