Article Title

Kirkos

Authors

Prabhu Venkatarama, Eureka CollegeFollow

Abstract

Yesterday morning I received a newspaper clipping that changed the course of my life. It arrived in a small grey envelope, my mother’s Cyrillic handwriting on the front instantly recognizable by its beautiful loops and arches. I was expecting it; my mother had told me it was in the mail. The clipping was of an obituary, that of Robert Mascas, a younger cousin of mine who’d lived in my former hometown of Kirkos. He had turned eighteen three months ago, precisely seven years to the day after I had. The obituary didn’t mention what my mother had on the phone, that Bobby had committed suicide...

Recommended Citation

Venkatarama, Prabhu (2016) "Kirkos," Sophia and Philosophia: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/sph/vol1/iss1/8