Victoria Otto Franzese

Victoria Otto Franzese’s work has appeared in a wide variety of online and print publications, including those published by The Sunlight Press, Hippocampus Books, the Creative Writing Institute, Blue Heron Book Works, Medusa's Laugh Press and the Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Fences

No matter what the weather, there’s always a chill in the air. No warm welcome eases the frosty blast of unspoken disappointment that hovers above me like a shimmering sword. Conversations are fencing rounds, with a jab here and lunge there. Despite my attempts to parry the barbed observation or pointed question about the state […]