Many of my favorite stories are concerned with questions of memory and forgetting, how we are calibrated by both forces, in turns. That’s certainly the dynamic at work in Jessica Treadway’s excellent ‘Testimony,’ a story about which I am reticent to say too much out of fear of spoiling it. There are goats in this story, wonderful goats. Also: some pretty serious lying. Read it for yourself to find out more, and then we can talk about it once you’ve finished. It contains one of the most haunting endings I know of, and I know of a good number of them. And a killer last line, too!
First published in Glimmer Train, widely available in Treadway’s collection Please Come Back to Me, The University of Georgia Press, 2010
A Personal Anthology 