Author

Barbara Klein Moss

Barbara Klein Moss holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She has published work in New England Review and The Georgia Review and has had a story selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2001.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Fiction

Jun 01 2001

Interpreters

The child is Thomas’, not his. She knows this, just as she knows it was Thomas she tempted, Thomas’ seed she wooed that first night in the house.

She had answered the last of the visitors’ questions at her door instead of leaving by way of the fields as the two of them usually did at closing. She had taken off her cap and let her hair flow down her back.