Elizabeth Bastos

Elizabeth Bastos is a suburban Baltimore stay-at-home mother of two. She writes in the very early morning before everyone wakes up and demands things. In her free time, she cooks complicated French pastries to tempt her children into doing what she asks. Her work has appeared in The Big Jewel, Defenestration, Errant Parent, Funny Not Slutty, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Her blog, Goody Bastos, can be found at goodybastos.blogspot.com.

Little Know Cheesemonger School of Poetry

So much depends upon a red wheel of Edam. —William Carlos Williams, a.k.a. Dr. Cheese * * * If you can keep your head when all about you Men are losing their Stilton and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt your mozzarella . . . Yours is the [...]