By Leslie Lisbona
My Dad sat at our round kitchen table, a hunk of cheese in front of him, his head in his hands. What’s the matter, my sister and I asked? “I don’t know why I’m gaining so much weight” he said, “All I eat is cheese”. Debi and I caught each other’s eyes and tried not to laugh. “Dad”, I said “Stop eating cheese!” I wrapped it in wax paper and put it in the fridge. “Okay” he said, and lit up a cigarette, inhaled deeply, and blew the smoke into the tiffany lamp above our heads.
Leslie Lisbona was featured in the Style section of The New York Times in March. She has been published in JMWW, Smoky Blue Literary & Arts Magazine, and Welter. Her work has been nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net 2024 contest. She is the child of immigrants from Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up in Queens, NY. She recently completed her memoir and is looking for an agent. https://leslielisbona.substack.com/
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