Val West, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Fri, 02 Jun 2023 17:24:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Val West, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Skip https://hyacinthreview.org/val-west-skip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=val-west-skip Mon, 07 Aug 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4793 My father once told me that before we moved into our current house, there had been bloodstains in the backroom—the one with the glass French doors that my stepmother would later cover with plastic. It had been built before I was born next to a Catholic church, which had been built next to a slight…

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