Hope and Furies
By Shana Ross
When vengeance descends
in a collective
noun with feathers:
do we expect
a murmuration
or a murder?
Shana Ross is a writer, mother, muse, sometime wallflower, middle-aged ambivert with a BA and MBA from Yale. Since resuming her writing career in 2018, she has accumulated over 20 publication credits. She is a 2019 Parent-Writer Fellow of Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and is an editor for Luna Station Quarterly. She does not fully understand why women are not rioting, right now.
Painting, Orestes Pursued by the Furies, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1862.