826 VALENCIA DAYS
The school year has begun, and this essay from Tom Kealey illustrates an afternoon-in-the-life of a volunteer at the San Francisco tutoring center 826 Valencia
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Tom Kealey’s short story collection Thieves I’ve Known won the Flannery O’Connor Award, and was released in September 2013. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. More at tom-kealey.com.
Sunday Rumpus Fiction: Nobody
Nights at the store, the brother and sister bagged the groceries that tumbled down the conveyors, rarely looking up, a simple nod of the head at a thanks from a…