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Mourn and Organize

By Olivia Schwob

Mother Tongue

By Olajide A. Omojarabi

No More

Poetry by Subhashini Kaligotla

Girls on the Playground

By Ruth Madievsky

Jean McGarry

Jean McGarry
Jean McGarry is the author of nine books of fiction, story collections, and novels. Among these are the novels Gallagher's Travels and The Courage of Girls, and the short story collection Dream Date. Her 2006 novel, A Bad and Stupid Girl, received the University of Michigan Fiction Prize. The most recent of her books is No Harm Done, published by Dalkey Archive. She is a professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Southwest Review, and others. She is a graduate of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Fiction Arts & Culture

Notes from a Nothing

Fiction by Jean McGarry February 13, 2020
Here I am at graduation, lifting a leg under the white gown of purity, to show off a new pump.
Fiction Family & Relationships

Come to Me

By Jean McGarry December 19, 2016
A change of season, but no plan or guide, by star, riddle, or hint.
Fiction EducationFamily & Relationships

The Way You Look at Me

By Jean McGarry November 2, 2015

The husband wrote a letter every single day, sometimes more often. Sometimes, she didn’t open them, or deliberately misread them.

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