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Elizabeth Montoya Osborne is a writer and Bay Area native. She completed her BA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and her dual MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College of California. Now living in Portland, Oregon, she is currently working on a collection of essays, and chasing her toddler around the house.

Essay

The Yellow House

Issue No. 283 ~ December, 2020

The old Victorian house is surrounded by a chain-link fence, paint peeling, waiting for someone to gentrify her (to ruin her). I run my fingers across the yellow house on the computer screen. This is where my Mother lived in the life she had before …