Darlyn Finch
Darlyn Finch graduated from Rollins College with a bachelor's degree in English and a writing minor. She is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction/Poetry at Spalding University.
Darlyn has written articles for The Orlando Sentinel and the Florida Times Union/Jacksonville Journal.
She was interviewed on Poetic Logic on National Public Radio. Her poetry and prose has won prizes at the Mt. Dora Festival of Music and Literature. Her short stories have been published online and in literary magazines. Her short story "Wings" appeared in the book Shifting Gears.
Darlyn was Fiction Editor and Editorial Assistant for Brushing Art and Literary Magazine, and she writes Scribbles, a periodic email newsletter for Central Florida literati. Her website is www.sunscribbles.com
Black-Eyed Susan
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006For Susan, it was no longer a question of if she would kill herself. All she had left to answer were the nagging questions of when, where, and how. She’d spent a lot of time considering her options, but all of them had drawbacks.
She owned a gun for self-protection, but that would be messy. She abhorred messes. Cutting her wrists? The voices in her head liked that, but she cried when she got paper cuts, so she doubted she would be able to slice herself with a razor.
She’d ruled out hanging. She didn’t want to die ugly. Abruptly changing lanes into oncoming traffic? That seemed likely to cause disfigurement, not to mention how unfair it would be to the other …
