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River Mouth
**This short story won the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean Me and Val standing at the edge of the water, just above where Pagua River mouth open wide wide like it want to…
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Comunidad y escritura: una conversación con Laia Jufresa
Wishbone ha sido publicada en inglés por Fern Books, y su traducción al español, realizada por la autora, será publicada en Estados Unidos por Random House.
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Girl on Girl: We Expect Too Much from Mothers
I wonder if the rules around motherhood are harder to see because they don’t look like rules. They sound like your own voice. They feel like love. Lowering the standard doesn’t feel like rejecting some bullshit expectation of women; it…
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Everyone is an Object of Desire: A Conversation with Adam O’Fallon Price
All the stories in this collection are about people who want something, usually something ruinous. You really need desire for a story to work, usually on a material level and simultaneously on an emotional level. Tracking character desire is one…
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Damned if You Do: On Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear
I kept reading, reassuring myself that Burke was setting Natalie up for a fall. Surely the novel would eventually vindicate the women Natalie dismissed. Surely this was all heading toward a familiar moral: Tradwife fantasies are reactionary nonsense and professional…
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Play the Cards as They Lay
My point of view on my desires was certainly formed by my religion, and it is probable, highly likely even, that a young man despised by the very same religion finds his faith faltering. It is therefore an awful thing…
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Sunday Scaries: “Delicates”
Even the crunching tick of the mounted clock held off to hear Gwendolyn’s need for disruption.
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What We Are Allowed to Give
This is what it means to be a child who receives love and damage from the same pair of hands. You do not only inherit the damage. You inherit the confusion about what love is supposed to feel like, whether…
