Your Shining Trapdoor

by Nicolette Polek

"Feebee visits her parents in Pennsylvania. They go on hikes each day. Father goes very slowly because of his sciatica and her mother brings binoculars. She doesn't have any friends in America, so she gets to know birds instead."

Short story later collected in Polek's "Imaginary Museums," here published in an edition of 100 copies as a pamphlet.

Nicolette Polek is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is a recipient of the 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.

12 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2018

About the author

Nicolette Polek is a fiction writer from Northeast Ohio. She is the recipient of a 2019 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, Electric Literature, Spike Art Magazine, New York Tyrant, and elsewhere. Nicolette holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland and an MAR from Yale Divinity School. She currently teaches at SUNY Purchase and Bennington College.