Vamp and Waterfall

Written By Amanda Barusch

Vamping in front of Yosemite Falls


Her first impulse at Yosemite Falls is to climb up on a log: to strut and vamp. She listens to the click click click of his camera and, deaf to the roaring water, hears nothing but his praise.

"Yeah. Yeah. That's it, babe!"

"That's it," I whisper to my husband. "That's it exactly."

That’s exactly what we are not about.

Over half of the submissions we receive at Yawning Fox Press treat nature simply as backdrop — a stage for human desire, human drama, human desecration.

At Yawning Fox Press, we listen to the roar.

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this ever-changing world.

https://www.amandabarusch.com
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