Marissa Higgins

Marissa Higgins is a lesbian journalist. Her work has appeared in the Best American Food Writing 2018 (originally in Captault) and she is a recent D.C. Arts & Humanities Fellowship grant recipient. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Salon, NPR, Slate, Rumpus, Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is working on a novel.

THE OPENER by Marissa Higgins

Bobby tossed the stuffed chihuahua between his bare hands, Suboxone in his right coat pocket and a picture of Alyssa at two months in his left. Should have worn gloves, he knew. Cape Cod winters tug the cold out of bones. The bus depot, of course, wasn’t heated. What if I can’t find you in the parking lot, he said over the phone when they arranged the meeting. Just stay in one place, Alyssa’s grandmother said, and then she named it. Sharon added: You’ll recognize your blood.  The call went clipped like that: Yeah, he was still at the halfway…

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