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Risa Mickenberg

Risa Mickenberg
Risa Mickenberg’s stories have been published in The Baffler, Vice, Purple, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and the Pushcart Prize Collection.

She Wasn’t Their Mother

By Risa Mickenberg
Fiction•Vol. XXVI No. 3 (Winter 2013)

The parents were in the kitchen with the hostess, drinking wine from plastic cups, eating hummus, talking about the drought. The aunt stood in the living room, a safe distance away, running her hand through her niece’s hair, which was flecked with sparkles and bits of grated cheese. A boy with purple lips stared. “Are… [Read More]

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