Brendan Mathews writes fiction and teaches at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. A 2011 finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize, he has published in Best American Short Stories, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, and others.
She was Kitty to her parents, Katherine to the nuns in high school, Kate when she was in college. But to anyone who knew her then—Chicago in the first years of the nineties, her hands tearing at her guitar like a kid unwrapping a Christmas prese [...]
This is the story my father never tells.
It is August 1973. My father, Theobald Dunn, is twenty-four. For the past three years he has been stationed at a US Army base in Alaska, listening for the first stirrings of a Soviet missile launch. Before [...]
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