Alexa Mergen is the author of the chapbooks Three Weeks Before Summer and We Have Trees. Her poem “Distance,” published in Solo Novo, was a Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Taste Test selection. She edits the blog Yoga Stanza.
One night, she turns the novel’s last page. This is all— small house, plain street, some trees, sweet and irksome neighbors, dishes, bills, water leaks,