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Appearing Elsewhere

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I have a short story in the latest issue of Avery, a young literary magazine I’ve written about before. Avery 4 also includes fiction by Hannah Tinti, Kevin Canty, Rumaan Alam, Samar Fitzgerald, Sophie Rosenblum, Scott Garson, Callie Collins, James Iredell, Jessica Breheny, Sean Walsh, Anna Villegas, and Michael Bourdaghs. It’s wonderful to have found my story such a sleek and beautiful home, filled with so much good company.

Here’s the opening of my tale, called “A Love to Calm the Body”:

My grandmother fell in love with her doctor. She liked the way he scrubbed his hands. He also washed his forearms, held them wet in front of his body before taking them to the towel. My grandmother had a weekly appointment; she’d been diagnosed with Hysteria – an excess of emotion, a deep feminine sadness. This was in 1899, when my grandmother was twenty-three, two years married. My mother was only an idea then, hovering at the edges. I wasn’t anything at all.

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2 Responses to “Appearing Elsewhere”

  1. Emma
    at 8:56 am on January 21, 2009

    It's a gorgeous story, Edan, and we're thrilled to have it in Avery. You're in very good company. We're just busting our buttons.

    –Emma

  2. Edan
    at 2:12 pm on January 21, 2009

    Thanks, Emma. I'm so excited about the issue!

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