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Comfort Animals

Image is a color photo of a cat or dog looking out of a windshield; title card for the new craft essay, "Comfort Animals," by Pascha Sotolongo.

  By Pascha Sotolongo • The cat on the proposed book cover—a white-whiskered piebald—shouldn’t have surprised me. My debut story collection is full of furry mammals, birds, insects, and at least two lizards. A handful of these (often fantastical) creatures…

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Interview: Janis Hubschman

Image is the book cover for TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME: STORIES by Janis Hubschman; title card for the new interview with Melissa Benton Barker.

  In her debut short story collection, Take Me With You Next Time, Janis Hubschman illuminates the inner lives of girls and women by guiding the reader through the intricate crevices of her characters’ psyches—the thoughts and feelings that we…

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Interview: Amy Stuber

Image is the book cover for SAD GROWNUPS: SHORT STORIES by Amy Stuber; title card for the new interview with K Roberts.

  There’s a tipping point in life when a possibility becomes a certainty, and a metaphorical crossroads becomes a permanent change of direction. Amy Stuber is adept at finding pivotal moments in her fiction, choices that simultaneously disrupt expectations and…

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