Falling

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Originally appeared in: CREAM CITY REVIEW, Spring, 1991

Description: A child's growing up in an alcoholic family.

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Notes: Like everyone, I had an odd and dysfunctional childhood, and this is a somewhat autobiographical story. Selected by guest editor Frances Sherwood.

When I first began to fall through the floor, I wasn't sure what was happening. The kitchen seemed oddly distorted. The stripes of the wallpaper slanted a little to the left, the orange light of sunset laid over them like a flare of panic. My parents noticed nothing.