ByLiz Prato

Liz Prato’s short story collection, Baby’s On Fire, is forthcoming from Press 53 in May 2015. She writes, reads, edits, teaches, watches TV, naps, and searches for grace in people and art in Portland, Oregon and beyond.

  1. The Terrible Things I Learned About My Dad: On Abuse and the People We Love

    ByLiz Prato

    in The Butter

    These are some of the things I found when cleaning out my dad’s house after he died: his rainbow of karate belts and black belt certificates (1st and 2nd degree), a framed picture of us dancing together at a black-tie gala, the 387 type-written pages of his memoir, one 3 x 5 index card and one small square of paper etched with his handwriting, and almost a hundred letters from women my dad met on…

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