I wake up with a start. India is screaming. Giant cockroaches are coming to kill her. She’s shaking, her eyes round and huge. I don’t know what she’s talking about. I tell her she’s just having a bad dream. She clutches my arm, pulls me tightly. I tell her she’s okay, that I would never…
Author: S. Lesley Buxton
Lesley Buxton's short fiction has appeared in magazines such as: The New Quarterly,The Antigonish Review,The Fiddlehead, and The Windsor Review.
Her blog, Fall On Me, Dear, http://onmefall.wordpress.com deals with the challenges of parenting a teenager with intractable epilepsy.
Currently she works at Wabi Sabi, a wool store in Ottawa where she runs the knit night and writes the blog.
This October she created a hand-crafted line of recycled toy owls known as Howls.
Upcoming in 2014, her collaboration with artist, Patti Normand entitled "Little Voices" will be on display with the City of Ottawa gallery..
S. Lesley Buxton. Writer. 