Nina MacLaughlin

Biography

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren (FSG Originals, 2019), Summer Solstice (Black Sparrow, 2020), and Hammer Head (Norton, 2015). Her work has appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, the Believer, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

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FICTION / Summer 2021

The Bodies Correcting

By Nina MacLaughlin ,  Illustration by Dani Choi

If there was a shack by the side of the river, what would it look like? How big would it be? If we opened the door to the shack by the river, what would we find there? There’s no light in the shack except light that eats through the gaps...