Pale Flesh of Wood, The
The Trauma of Time Author: Elizabeth A. Tucker Her earliest memories are of the tree: its majestic beauty and the terrifying, exhilarating day when her father simultaneously bullied and cajoled her into climbing it to place the rope for the tire swing. It was a moment that defined their relationship – strong, chaotically loving, yet also toxic, filled with the unsaid, the inappropriate, and the broken. It was also the moment that set the stage for her father’s death. The rope she hung was the very rope which, years later, he would use to tie around his own neck. As [...]
