Isaac Deitz

The Family Portrait

An awkward family dinner.

I think my dead sister is following me around

a woman begins to see her dead sister, and as the ghost lingers, it eventually brings up their fractured relationship.

The Staying Kind

Florence Albertine is a 26-year old widow. Her husband, Charles, a soldier in the United States Confederate Army, left home ambitious and determined to resist invasion from the North and was killed in action by a Union cannon strike. Victor, their 7-year old son, understands why his father isn't coming home and cares for his mother through her own attempts to do the same.