Douglas W. Milliken
Douglas W. Milliken is the author of the novels To Sleep as Animals and Our Shadows’ Voice, the collection Blue of the World, and several chapbooks and multidisciplinary collaborations. His honors include prizes from the Pushcart Foundation, the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Glimmer Train, and RA & Pin Drop Studios, among others. He lives with his domestic and creative partner, Genevieve Johnson, in the industrial riverscape of Saco, Maine.
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Anyone Can Have a Good Time
I. One last photograph A small black-and-white snapshot of my mother, taken sometime in the mid-1950s. In the photo—its scalloped edges worn thin and curling—she stands half-turned toward the camera in a pale swimsuit, wet hair in pigtails and bare toes digging in the sand. In the background, her out-of-focus little brother stomps either […]