Amber Sparks
1. THE DISPATCHArrivals
She lands at the airport, the wheels juddering beneath the plane’s frame, her hands pressed to the seat back in front. She walks through the door to her home; the door to his office; she opens the door of his car. She finds herself at an impasse, holding a tube of too-red lipstick, surfacing with no sense of direction. She pulls up to the driveway of the other woman. She arrives at a conclusion, unsatisfactory but definite. She steps off the train, too late; she’s left the best part of herself behind, barreling down the tracks toward a different kind of town.
2. BUREAU INVENTORYMy computer
A billion notebooks
Fountain pens
Fountain pen ink
Ballpoint pens
A painting of a ghost
Books on writing
Books on medieval shit
Books on ghosts
3. BIOGRAPHYAmber Sparks is the author of four collections of short fiction, including And I Do Not Forgive You: Revenges and other Stories and The Unfinished World, and her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, The Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, The Cut and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.