The Houseboat Veronica: A Novel by Josh Bell [2024]

by Mothlight A Quick Dream of the Black-Haired Woman’s Black Hair But Once There Had Been Two of You Crescent Lake A Betrayal It Was a Little Sad When It Finally Happened In Which You Are Given a Name A Vision The Four-Handed White Fog Bang-Knives and Other Knives Where Were You When You Realized There Was Another World? A Visitor An Escaped Prisoner Diving into the Submerged Witch Cemetery White Half World One Moon and One Sun and One Sky A Visitor II Dream After Seeing Blood (the Garden at the End of the World) Marriage in the Time of One Moon and One Sun and One Sky Some Mothers Codicil Honeymoon in Black The Living Dots A Few Notes on the Carrying of Witches Some Ideas about Who Veronica Might Have Been, Plus a Second Escaped Prisoner, Plus Memories of Occasions When the Black-Haired Woman Has Entertained Lovers on the Houseboat Veronica, Plus a Small Capture of Toads Like Ghosts with a Little Pink Left in Them The Oligarchy, the Woman Anne Sexton 3, a Study of Facial Hair, a Girl Named Cozilla Letter in the Black-Haired Woman’s Hand Long Night in Torsion Cove A Little Unclear What the Moon Looked Like Sewn Up, for the Second Time, on the Houseboat Veronica The Giving of a Gift Blood on the Dance Floor A Turtle Everyone Wants to Belong to a Witch The Hanging Gardens The Great White Queen A Proposition Epilogue: Return of Orphan Thing Acknowledgments