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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 …

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 …