Witness Magazine

Rebecca Bernard

Rebecca Bernard
Rebecca Bernard is a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of North Texas where she will serve as the incoming Production Editor for the American Literary Review in Fall 2018. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southwest Review, Meridian, Bat City Review, The Journal, and elsewhere.

First Date

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Fiction•Vol. XXXI No. 2 (Summer 2018)

On a first date, Jamie is learning the thing to say, and it isn’t the truth; it isn’t the story of redemption, his own, or the difficulty of childhood, he is 58, or the way that prison teaches a man something about living that nothing else does, no. On a first date, Jamie is supposed… [Read More]