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Scodellaro’s characters have autonomy, know their comforts and desires, and find space and safety in the corners of forgotten places. They grieve on countertops, chewing ice and waiting for the return of a lover who has left for another.
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This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.
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Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
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Before they were married, they met in a photograph.
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If this were the end, May needed to see.
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When I’ve been running regularly and writing regularly, it tends to go well. When I haven’t been running or writing in a while, then I’m bent over heaving for breath and wondering why I ever thought I knew how to write a sentence.
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The words blur, become meaningless. You need them to be meaningless.
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Cara Blue Adams discusses her debut story collection, YOU NEVER GET IT BACK.
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Christopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.
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“I always try to locate stories deep inside myself, physically and emotionally.”
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Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE?
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You are never really at peace with what you haven’t gotten.
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The narrator then returns to normal life, only to discover that life may never be normal again.
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Jennifer Fliss discusses her debut story collection, THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL.
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Christopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.
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She gave him a small, relieved laugh. In another world, she replied.
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new story collection, THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU.
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“Life is incredibly sad, but it’s also funny, joyful, wonderful, and strange.”
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Leslie Pietrzyk discusses her new story collection, ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE.
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he lives in closets, stalks young kids, & takes them in the middle of the night.
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Louise Marburg discusses her new story collection, NO DIVING ALLOWED.
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Jon Chaiim McConnell discusses his new novella, THRUM.
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I took a deep breath. A long one. And I started rocking again.
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Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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You stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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Beth Gilstrap discusses her new story collection, DEADHEADING.
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My miraculous children were mine, and mine alone.
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Women, trans, and nonbinary writers share work on rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
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