Richard Schmitt
Richard Schmitt's work has been anthologized in Best American Essays and New Stories of the South: The Year's Best. His work has also appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Arts & Letters and The North American Review. His novel The Aerialist was published by Harcourt in 2001.
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Breathing
The ambulance came at midnight in the middle of the week, alarm clock on our nightstand glowing in the dark, flickering lights streaming up through our bedroom windows and circling on the ceiling over our bed. My wife, Mary, propped …