By Kerri Schlottman

Kerri Schlottman is a Detroit native, living in the New York City area since 2005. She is the author of the novels No More Time, Sweetheart Deals, The Song Remains the Same, and Bustle in the Hedgerow. Her short stories and poetry have been featured in The Furnace, Juncture: A Literary Magazine, and Wayne Lit Review. She was additionally a featured artist by Muse Apprentice Guild, which produced her project The Body: Space, Time, Memory, a collection of original poetry written onto the bodies of models, photographed, and exhibited at 555 Gallery in Detroit. It has since been bound and published in special edition. Kerri is currently the Director of Institutional Development at Creative Capital, a non-profit organization that supports individual artists, writers and filmmakers in the production of new work.


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All the Life

  On January 28, 2018 my mom dies for fourteen minutes.   My sister and I are first told it’s twenty, but the doctors will later correct themselves, pleased with that extra six minutes they spared her. We aren’t sure what difference that makes. But it seems important and so we catalogue it in our…