Issue 19 / Fall 2019 My mother’s first memory was a dark one. She was three, living in the gray, perilous misery of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. The ghetto had become her home as a baby. She, who had just celebrated her first birthday with her cousins, aunts,...
Breathing Lessons Disguised as a Mystery: Reading Tara Laskowski’s One Night Gone One Night Gone Author: Tara Laskowski Graydon Press, 2019 ISBN: 978-1525832192 $16.99 Review by Kate Anderson Everyone dreams, at one time or another, of walking away and starting...
Issue 19 / Fall 2019 The mailed invitation surprised Jonah Marquez. Symposium For The Arts, which held its annual awards ceremony in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had included him on their exclusive guest list: fifty nominees for ten awards, and each one could invite a...
Issue 19 / Fall 2019 “Is that her?” Lucía asked. “Yes, ma’am, that’s her. Every sequence is the same,” he said. “Every molecule.” They were as proud of her as Lucía had been when she’d seen her—the original—for the first time. She’d been born in her...
Issue 19 / Fall 2019 This piece is a continuation of Jon Epstein’s “Ace in the Hole,” published in the Quarterly’s Issue 16, Winter 2019, and “Ace in the Hole: Part II,” published in Quarterly’s Issue 17, Spring 2019. It’s a...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Maybe while I was shitting, my IUD came out, which is something that can happen. Maybe my body decided, against my brain, my rational self, that it didn’t want this foreign object shoved inside of it....
