Rink
Rent from DeepDyve- Rink
Children do not think of memory. What use do they have for nostalgia? I don’t recall as a child ever thinking: I will remember this for the rest of my life, or, I hope I remember to tell my kids someday, or, when I was seven, when I was nine, or eleven, saying, remember that time when I was six and Dad took me to the roller rink, but I lost him in the crowd and when I found him again, he was squatting on the ground, helping that girl from school tie the laces of her skates and looking up her skirt? I remember I yelled across the alley to him, “Dad! Come look at this!” with nothing that I wished to show him, both of us feigning innocence, while that girl, having been caught at something she didn’t know not to enjoy, closed her knees with a snap. [End Page 113]
Carmiel Banasky is the author of the novel, The Suicide of Claire Bishop (Dzanc 2015). Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Slice, Guernica, pen America, The Rumpus, and on NPR, among other places. She earned her mfa from Hunter College, where she taught Undergraduate Creative Writing. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Ucross, Ragdale, Artist Trust, I-Park, VCCA, and other foundations. After four years on the road at writing residencies, she now lives and teaches in Los Angeles.
