A Winter Vigil
Christmas lights twinkle outside Grandma’s hospice window.
Sarah Salcedo is an award-winning filmmaker, illustrator, and author. Her stories, essays, and poetry have been published in Identity Theory, Uncharted Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, HAD, The Future Fire, Hypertext Magazine, and elsewhere. She was the Spring 2022 Writer-in-Residence for Town Hall Seattle and is an alum of both the 2022 Tin House Winter and Summer Workshop. She is based in the Pacific Northwest. You can view her work at www.sarah-salcedo.com and follow her online at @SarahSalcedo on Twitter/Facebook/Hive/Post and @SarahVSalcedo on Instagram.
Christmas lights twinkle outside Grandma’s hospice window.