The House on Neptune

Authors

  • Karen Brown Author

Keywords:

grief, suicide, family secrets, childhood home, memory, alcoholism

Abstract

In this short story, a woman accompanies her lover and his siblings on a tour of their childhood home in Tampa, where she was once secretly the girlfriend of the younger brother who killed himself beside the pool.

Author Biography

  • Karen Brown

    Karen Brown is the author of the novel, The Longings of Wayward Girls, and two short story collections—Little Sinners and Other Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the John Gardner Book Award, and Pins and Needles: Stories, recipient of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her second novel, The Clairvoyants, is forthcoming from Henry Holt in 2017.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Brown, Karen. “The House on Neptune”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 451–465, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/590.