“Erasure Methods” by Annie Ostlund
Recommended by Electric Literature
Issue No. 148
Original Fiction
Emily has been living in the greenhouse ever since the sixth dog died. She returns to our house now only to replenish her supplies—flashlight batteries and almond butter sandwiches—or to trade out the books on Iceland and Finland she’s been devouring lately. The last dog was a northern breed, densely furred and husky, and it seems to have twisted open a lockbox inside Emily that she doesn’t know how to close. She refuses to talk about our new living arrangement. She speaks only about dogs from the shelter, how we aren’t doing enough, how we can never do enough.
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About the Author
Annie Ostlund holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from UC Davis, where she won the 2013 Lois Ann Latin Rosenberg Prize for short fiction. Her work has previously appeared in the Whitefish Review. Currently, she lives in Northern California and is at work on a collection of stories and a novel.
Copyright © 2015 by Annie Ostlund. All rights reserved by the author.
