WALL OF WHITE was published in a print edition of Spectrum Literary Journal.

Will was upstairs in the bedroom just staring out the window at the snow coming down. It was Christmas Eve–a total whiteout. He could hardly see to the end of the yard where the tree line began and, even so, the birches were all covered in snow. The footprints he had made earlier, walking to the tool shed, had already been filled in. Everything out there was a wall of white.

Author’s Note: The hybrid form and use of white space in this story about love, racism, and violence felt like a necessary way of exploring the unbearable pain and isolation the characters experienced after the murder of their only child.