Alison Louise Harney is earning an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She writes theatre and art reviews for the Wilmington Star-News and designs the literary journal Ecotone.

September 24th, 2008 (Before the cat died). A Cat, Crickets, Peaches and Ice Cream—and Immortality My mother, the cat and I decided to sit outside to eat our dessert. We don’t sit there as often as one might think. The deck is stained the color ...