Editor’s Notes by Mark Neely
“How strange is it that I am a person?” Indira Khera asks in “Electrocardiogram,” the first of eleven brilliant, beautiful, necessary essays you will find printed in these pages. This question haunts Khera as a child, then returns years later when she visits her parents in their new home in Florida, and, in trying to make sense of their lives, opens up new inquiries about her own. Continue reading . . .
Contents
“Electrocardiogram” Indira Khera ◆ “Hell Hollow, No Possessive” Julia Nagele ◆ “To Those Who Wonder” Jan Shoemaker ◆ “Kith, In the Aftermath” Julie Marie Wade ◆ “The Launch” Jessica Lind Peterson ◆ “Woodnotes: Wild and Domestic” Sam Pickering ◆ “Permission to Stop Pretending” Manoj Kumar H V ◆ “Wind Sprints” Ann Guy ◆ “The Boy Who Fell Through the Ice” Gregory Martin ◆ “The Body I Am Trying to Outrun” Shannon McCarthy ◆ “Sussex” Ana Maria Spagna
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