TankIsabelle Appleton$10.00
I had a lot of ideas about redemption. Mostly that it was good, something our bodies wanted and moved naturally towards. I was interested in absolutes. I liked the virtues temperance, mercy, and grace. In Scripture, the Prodigal Son is welcomed back into his father’s house even when he doesn’t ask for restoration, nor sufficiently repents for his misconduct. The only precondition for the forgiveness of debt is its existence, and I wanted to be someone who forgave.
Isabelle Appleton’s work can be found in print and online in Joyland, Conjunctions, The New England Review, The Washington Square Review, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Fiction from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow, and received the Alpine Fellowship and Thesis Research Award. Originally from St. Louis, she lives in Brooklyn.
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