![]() ![]() Your dark coat that always smells of damp wool. You play to the crowds-ape paralysis-distort your countenance until they almost cease to recognize you, wondering if you have not in fact escaped the wards, if you are actually an inmate imitating the great professor. ![]() Your hand curving inward, clenched, right leg dragging behind your left so it resembles a vestigial appendage, a half-amputated limb. ![]() You stand at the front of the amphitheatre, chalk in hand, the right side of your face drooping like a stroke victim’s. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband, author Christopher Narozny, and their corgi. ![]() She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Syracuse University. Her fiction has appeared in Quarter After Eight, Fourteen Hills, 3rd Bed, Open City, Sleeping Fish, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Shope is the author of Hangings: Three Novellas, published by Starcherone Books. The following is excerpted from Nina Shope's Asylum. ![]()
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