Non-Fiction
Our Golden Maple by Abby Manzella
While on separate walks, my mother and I talk to each other on the phone—she in Pennsylvania and I in Missouri.
Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements, winner of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award. She has published with journals such as Threepenny Review, HAD, Superstition Review, and Pleiades. Find her tweeting @abbymanzella and @abbymanzella.bsky.social.
While on separate walks, my mother and I talk to each other on the phone—she in Pennsylvania and I in Missouri.
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