Mary Crockett Hill

Mary Crockett Hill is the author of Autumn House Prize-winning A Theory of Everything and received the Bluestem Prize for If You Return Home with Food. She lives with her family on Old Wilderness Road in Southwest Virginia.
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Memento Mori
Because they had no pictures of her breathing, they stretched her small breathless body on a child’s fainting couch, pressed down her eyelids, and tucked a china doll in the crook of her arm — as if in a …