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My Heart, the Stranger

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An anatomically-correct heart made out of red neon on a black background. There's a slight red glow surrounding the heart. — Photo by Alexandru Acea on Unsplash

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Tori Malcangio, a white woman with long blonde hair, is lit by soft light from below. She wears dangly earrings and a white one-shouldered top and smiles.

Tori Malcangio

Tori Malcangio’s fiction has appeared in venues such as The Missouri Review, Conjunctions, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, Mississippi Review, and ZYZZYVA and has won The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Award in fiction, among others. “My Heart, the Stranger” is an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress.

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