Fiction

Assistant Editor Blessing Christopher: Today’s miCRo reimagines a cautionary tale as something more wholesome. There are no villains in this story, but it should not be read as an attempt to launder the wolf’s image. The story identifies the wolf’s appetite in the original Charles Perrault fairy tale as a source of strife, and although …

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I remember feeling a restlessness in my twenties and moving quite often, not always to different cities or parts of the country, sometimes just to different apartments within the same city. Usually there was a reason for moving—grad school, a job opportunity, a relationship—but not always. Sometimes it was just the sense that I was …

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Associate Editor Andy Sia: Shikhandin’s haunting story pays mind to possession: what we own, what we do not own, and what we feel owed to. Clothing—a metonymy for inheritance—is a spectral presence in the piece, constellating around the body, cinching, draping, slipping. Amid the maw of loss, the piece crescendos toward the end in a …

Depending on the situation and people involved, this outside world may or may not crash like terse waves into said Self, transgressing a felt sense of sovereignty, wholeness, intactness, a concept which is intangible yet real . . . very real.

Sarah Chin’s story navigates the sticky terrain of grief.