Donna D. Vitucci is Development Director of Covington Ladies Home, the only free-standing personal care home exclusively for older adult women in Northern Kentucky. Her stories have appeared in dozens of print and online journals, including
PANK
,
Fifth Wednesday Journal
,
Smokelong Quarterly
,
Hobart
,
Monkey Bicycle
,
Juked
,
Watershed Review
,
Gargoyle
,
Hinchas de Poesia
,
Contrary
,
Corium Magazine
,
Southern Women’s Review
and most recently in
Change Seven
. Her unpublished novel
FEED MATERIALS
was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize and is currently under agent representation. Three other finished novels wait in a trunk.
Like it or not, Imogene was under his thumb, a wayward girl far off her path and seeking comfort in the face of torn buildings. Her hair she’d dyed pink and blue in places and left blond elsewhere. Her head was a crown of confetti, chopped fronds you couldn’t even call mop or rag. Panteen didn’t want anybody else wanting her. She was his on the dead grass out by the levee, in
