Bunny
by William Walsh
Bunny Yeager had a camera. Bunny Yeager had big ears. Bunny Yeager smelled of sawdust. Bunny Yeager disliked carrots. Bunny Yeager never learned to ride a bike. Bunny Yeager debuted at seventeen. Bunny Yeager rose at sunrise. Bunny Yeager packed one bikini in an ancient suitcase. Bunny Yeager shot in color. Bunny Yeager liked girls wet. Bunny Yeager read Spillane. Bunny Yeager hopped to it. Bunny Yeager detested piety. Bunny Yeager posed Bettie Page on a synthetic bearskin rug. Bunny Yeager wrote a fan letter to a teenage Natalie Wood. Bunny Yeager said, “More like that.” Bunny Yeager owned two boats. Bunny Yeager voted republican because she knew it pleased her dad. Bunny Yeager said, “What is this pertaining to?” Bunny Yeager touched herself in the darkroom, underneath a hot red light. Bunny Yeager received communion. Bunny Yeager paid her bills. Bunny Yeager wasn’t one for making friends. Bunny Yeager smoked menthol cigarettes. Bunny Yeager never married. Bunny Yeager could take Hugh Hefner. Bunny Yeager seduced men in their sleep. Bunny Yeager played backgammon on the beach. Bunny Yeager lived to say, “Please disrobe.”
posted by William Walsh
William Walsh is our July 2010 Writer In Residence. He is the author of Pathologies, a new mini-book from Keyhole Press. He is also responsible for Questionstruck, Without Wax, and, forthcoming from Keyhole Press in February 2011, Ampersand, Mass. and Unknown Arts. His stories and derived texts have appeared in Annalemma, Artifice, Quick Fiction, New York Tyrant, Juked, No Colony, LIT, Rosebud, and other journals. He blogs weekly at The Kenyon Review.Our Writer In Residence is invited to spend a month onsite sharing fiction, interviews, reviews, ideas, or an ongoing project of some kind.
Past Residents:
Amber Sparks
Brian Kiteley
Ethel Rohan
First Footing
Gina Frangello
Origin Stories
Jess Stoner
Jeff Vande Zande
Kevin Fanning
Kathy Fish
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Matt Briggs
Peter Grandbois
Roxane Gay
Robert Kloss
Terri Griffith
Tim Horvath
William Walsh
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In this week’s Research Notes, Ben Tanzer considers how being simultaneously true to an experience and true to a story can be more complicated than it first seems.
Unknown Arts, the new collection by William Walsh, is now available from Keyhole Press. William wrote about the book recently for our Research Notes series.
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