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Another Lydia Davis Story

I read a story by Lydia Davis about a woman who, upon turning sixty, began sprouting hair from...

The most powerful magic often remains invisible, except to those who know how to recognize it. The act...

The skin on my shoulders peels. Slack and careless, I was out all afternoon in a meadow. Ever...

Obviously, the word is state. As in "of emergency" yet a body continues to rattle onto the train...

"Feeding the Birds," by Margaret Hetherman, is the winner of the Columbia Journal's Special Issue on Loneliness.

Trethewey’s memoir is a lyric confrontation with grief—the way it shapes and reshapes memory over time, permeating even...

I had just been laid off from my job, my roommate had bolted to his home country, and...

Lynn Steger Strong discusses her second novel Want, a book that explores the complexities of motherhood, lost friendship,...

i wonder if salmon are aware of their orange pink flesh inside them.

Mackintosh examines the nature of rebellion, the innate strength of motherhood, and the paradox of choice.

I didn’t choose the bathroom for its grandeur. The room is narrow and yellowed with a bathtub against...

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