Tamar Mekredijian serves as the Senior Fiction Editor at Write or Die Magazine and is the co-creator of the Write Together Retreat. She is an English Instructor at various community colleges, focusing on the Narrative rhetorical mode. She is querying her first novel, which was recently long-listed for The Masters Review First Chapter Award. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
Our grocery store. Our bank. Our beloved local coffee shop and pizza parlor. I didn’t know where I was until I saw the magnolia tree, rigid and charred.