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Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong: Light and Shadows

By Hua Xi and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

The Shape of Vodou in Diaspora

By Dieu-Nalio Chery and Gabriel Noel

I Am the Ghost Here

By Kim Samek

Extraction

By Tali Perch

Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh has had her short stories appear in Fence, Noon, Sleepingfish, Unsaid, and Vice Magazine. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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The Chaperone

By Ottessa Moshfegh July 1, 2011

What delighted me was watching how the sun changed my appearance. I spent nightly hours in the mirror, describing the new shades and hues of my face or arms to my martin, who was colorblind.

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