Bordo by Linda Michel-Cassidy

Cindy Shebley CC




Bordo

We drove to Marfa because there was no snow. This is the way it’s been getting. Dryer and hotter. To distract ourselves, we go to see some Big Art. A guy in a tiny art store/gallery tells us where to go for important sandwiches. Let me be perfectly clear: I have known some sandwiches in my day. A poet I admire was at the next table and I did my best not to be a menace. The place had some curious soda flavors like cardamon and lavender, and the poet and I nodded to each other, hoisting our drinks like champagne, toasting this small good luck.

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Linda Michel-Cassidy’s story collection, When We Were Hardcore (EastOver, 2025) was named to the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for debut story collection longlist. Michel-Cassidy’s writing has appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Tahoma Review, December, Catamaran, and elsewhere. She is senior reviews and hybrid/collaboration editor at Tupelo Quarterly. Michel-Cassidy lives on a houseboat and is a novice open-water swimmer. lmichelcassidy.com


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