Emily Franklin

Emily Franklin's work has been published or is forthcoming in the New York Times, the Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, Blackbird, DIAGRAM, Mississippi Review, Lunch Ticket, Passages North, North Dakota Review, Monkeybicycle, Juked, and the Chattahoochee Review among other places, as well as featured on National Public Radio and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Fiction Family & Relationships

The Requirement of Adequacy

Fiction by Emily Franklin January 22, 2021

Your son will smile with half his mouth because he is seventeen and unaware of what sorrows lie ahead of him, and also because a girl in his Advanced Topics in Social Justice told him he looked cute doing so.