Jo Saleska Lange

I have dreamt of giving birth to a child with six mouths, all of which are insatiably hungry, and of one with beady eyes on the tips of each of its fingers, which watch me wherever I go.

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Lucy Zhang

On Lan’s date with her first match on Tinder, Lan’s mother calls to tell her that her grandpa had passed away in the hospital a few hours ago and they are flying to Shanghai for the funeral.

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Anna Levy

It was an unbearably hot summer that year, and the fact that her mother could die in such weather was unsettling. Somewhere along the way, Lonnie figured she’d absorbed the idea that winter was the time for passing.

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Rita Szollos

She’s late. We’d planned a strenuous hike, but she’s wearing cowboy boots adorned with lace, poms, turquoise, and leather fringe.

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