By Cameron Dezen Hammon

Cameron Dezen Hammon's essays and poems have appeared in NYLON Magazine , Role/Reboot , Columbia Poetry Review , Gigantic Sequins , LOCAL Houston , and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Seattle Pacific University. She lives in Houston. Follow her @camerondhammon

  1. The One-Hundred-Year-Flood

    By Cameron Dezen Hammon

    in The Butter

    On May 25, 2015, the night before my husband’s forty-second birthday, he was watching the Houston Rockets beat the Golden State Warriors at a local bar. It was raining. My daughter and I were already home, waiting for him to return after the game. She was eight and had school the next day, so after she went to bed, I texted my husband for an update on his whereabouts. The rain had turned into a…

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