Susanna Childress

Notes from a Hypersomniac

Notes from a Hypersomniac

I Last week I stuck my son in the scalp with a sewing pin. He did not scream. He did not cry. He said, What was that thing, Mama? The boy sat with me at the table, in my lap, and I hunched around him, patching over the couch’s slipcover with navy pinstripe wool. It …

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