We broke up over six kids—that’s how I always told the story. But of course that was no story. I don’t mean that it wasn’t fiction (although it wasn’t ), just that it wasn’t narrative. It was only the prelude to a punch line. Six kids? the person to whom I had said this would ask. What kids?
Kids we didn’t have.
Then the laugh. And we’d move on.
Michelle Herman's most recent books are Dog, a short novel, and The Middle of Everything, a collection of personal essays. She is a New Yorker--Brooklyn-born and bred--who has lived in Ohio for nearly two decades, teaching in the creative writing program at Ohio State, USA.
She is at work now on a second collection of essays, and on a new novel.