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Maurice Chammah: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

By Ann Neumann

In the Land of Fiction and Fake News

By Elizabeth Mitchell

Lost for Words

By Stewart L. Sinclair

Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard

Poetry by Felicia Zamora

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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