A creative and disturbing piece from Sean Patrick Mulroy on childhood, neglect, and silence.
Sean Patrick Mulroy
About Sean Patrick Mulroy
Born and raised in Southern Virginia, the house where Sean Patrick Mulroy grew up was built in 1801 and was commandeered by the Union Army during the Civil War to serve as a makeshift hospital. As a boy, Sean loved to peel back the carpets to show where the blood from hasty surgeries on wounded soldiers had stained the wooden floorboards. Now he writes poems. He is a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, and his work has been published or is forthcoming in The Bakery, Muzzle, Assaracus, Rua de Baixo, and Union Station.