I look up. Mother is puttering by the sink, cleaning up some of the dishes before she sits down to eat, which seems to be an odd thing to do, something that could wait until after dinner. She looks over at the table and smiles at all of us sitting and eating, wipes some splattered water off the counter.
ex W. B. Pescosolido, “Mother,” in Indiana Review (Fall 1993),
encountered (together with editor Cara Diaconoff’s introduction to that story, “The Resurrected ‘Mother’”) in Warren Slesinger, ed., The Whole Story : Editors on Fiction : A Collection of Essays and Stories (Columbia, South Carolina: The Bench Press, 1995) : 123-130
borrowable at archive.org : link
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good (dry, haunting — is that combination even possible?) story; young son rummages through the house, the neighborhood, looking for traces of his mother, who reappears (or is recreated).
from the above —
W. B. Pescosolido teaches at Emerson College. A graduate of Harvard College, he has worked as a farm laborer, a gasoline trader, and a cataloger of rare books. “Mother,” which appeared in the Indiana Review, is his first published story.
302 : link
and, via linkedin, &c., —
Winthrop Pescosolido (Harvard BA, 1985, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology; Emerson College, MFA writing, 1991), involved now in land management and orange growing, Sequoia Orange Company, Exeter (eastern foothills of the San Joaquin Valley) California.
company website : link
21 March 2026