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This is such a powerful manifestation of fiction: as writers, much as we make stuff up, we are always writing someone’s story. Is it true? Did this really happen? the reader often asks. It is always true—for someone, somewhere, sometime.

“No One Gets off Scot-Free: Jill McCorkle’s Old Crimes”
A review in The Rumpus

What mother doesn’t ache when the distance between her and her daughter stretches like taffy and then breaks off?

“Bride”
A short story in The Antioch Review

Even when he was a small boy, his mother said, “You worry too much. You let go of one worry and pick up another. You reach for a worry the way other kids reach for candy.”

“The Heiress and the Radioman”
A short story in Abundant Grace

There was nothing more likely to cause despair than a room darkening at midday.

“Cold Voice”
A short story in Artful Dodge