Riley Bassett

R. (Riley) Bassett {[email protected]} is from Las Vegas, Nevada. She studied English and French at SUU and received her MFA degree in creative writing from BYU. She has work published in The Likewise Folio, the Kolob Canyon Review, and Inscape. Also, Riley and her mom created Kindredhouse, a small non-profit working to help a rural hos￾pital in Cambodia.

Solomon the Wise

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

Mom remarried and moved out just after I turned six. To move is to
choose (which none of us wanted to do), as remarry is to wary, or to
worry. Like what I did the first night my brother and I stayed at Mom’s
new house. Dad was alone. All alone. Burn. Reburn. So Mom drove me

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