Genevieve Abravanel

Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in the Missouri Review, American Short Fiction, Story, Chicago Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has published a scholarly book with Oxford University Press and received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Association of University Women. She teaches English and is currently working on a novel.

Fiction – Issue 36

Bananas, Sweetheart

Connell appeared in the bathroom doorway, his pale, skinny chest bare, picking his nose. Below his neck, a crescent like a reddish, smiling moon. Connell wasn’t old enough for the mark to embarrass him. Jasper wouldn’t tell him, not now. Today, Jasper was in charge. And they couldn’t stay home with no mother. Her absence was in every room.