Author Archives: Michelle Richmond

Michelle Richmond

Michelle Richmond's books include the novel Dream of the Blue Room (MacAdam/Cage 2003), which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (UMass 2001), which won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Exquisite Corpse, Other Voices, 7x7, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of San Francisco and edits the online litmag Fiction Attic. Her web page is www.michellerichmond.com.

Obedience

On the train, riding to meet him, she looks at strangers and sees potential lovers: the boy with a faint trace of a hair-lip, staring out the window; the Indian man in the long red scarf who keeps glancing her way…

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