House Tours

Story prose-poems by Sherril Jaffe.

From “A Tree Has Died”:

“A tree has died in my front yard. I am afraid that this house is already becoming vindictive. It was a pretty little flowering cherry and must have died when the gardener removed the hedge that stood in front of it that was all covered with poison ivy. He sprayed the ground with herbicide and the little tree died.”

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Sherril Jaffe is the author of ten books, including Scars Make Your Body More Interesting, This Flower Only Blooms Every Hundred Years, The Unexamined Wife, The Faces Reappear, House Tours, Interior Designs, Ground RulesOne God Clapping, Expiration Date, and You Are Not Alone and Other Stories, winner of the 2011 Spokane Award for the Short Story. Her stories have appeared in a variety of journals, including Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, and American Fiction. She is the recipient of the 2000 Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence, a PEN Award, as well as a 2010 MacDowell Fellowship.