“Within this Kingdom,” in Fourth Genre

by Amanda Giracca on December 9, 2014December 10, 2014

1. Last summer I repotted several cymbidium orchids. “Orchid” likely conjures up the loveliest of flowers, something too delicate to mess with, but the cymbidiums needed a firm hand. Over time they had migrated to the edge of their pots, as though trying to glacially ooze their way out and back to the wild. A […]

“Lives and Past Lives,” in Vela Magazine

by Amanda Giracca on January 21, 2014December 9, 2014

Long before I met Ben, and before I had that echoey apartment, I lived in a one-room log cabin that sat by a little pond in the woods. I lived there for two years, alone. There was no running water, no electricity. There was a wood stove and propane lamps and a little gas refrigerator […]