
“Consider the Sex Offender” by Christine Hume
I involuntarily recall a story I heard on NPR. A group of boys rape a 12-year-old girl. In an abandoned hunting cabin in the woods. At a summer camp . . .
Read MoreI involuntarily recall a story I heard on NPR. A group of boys rape a 12-year-old girl. In an abandoned hunting cabin in the woods. At a summer camp . . .
Read MoreFully dressed, reclining on a bed at Ozanam Hall on the final day of her life, Grandma—distressed, distracted—asked me to move her legs…
Read MoreI attempt to eat a three-and-a-half pound, seven-patty cheeseburger, so that it may be named in my honor. I’ve been practicing for weeks…
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Read MoreWhen my father talks about his years of drifting in and out of homelessness, he is quick to remind me of how lucky he…
Read MoreMy poor best friend. Her wealth. So real. Concrete. Last week, I saw her for a drink. We met in the suburbs…
Read MoreThe father of the deceased—when interviewed for television—said, with a solitary tear in his stoic eye, that “she didn’t have a wicked bone in…
Read MoreIt’s 2013, and I’m visiting an elderly professor in an assisted living facility in the college town where I live. I haven’t seen him…
Read More“AAA says there’s at least an hour wait,” my friend Madeline says, sullenly dragging a hand through her hair. It is a muggy July…
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