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Comfort Animals

Image is a color photo of a cat or dog looking out of a windshield; title card for the new craft essay, "Comfort Animals," by Pascha Sotolongo.

  By Pascha Sotolongo • The cat on the proposed book cover—a white-whiskered piebald—shouldn’t have surprised me. My debut story collection is full of furry mammals, birds, insects, and at least two lizards. A handful of these (often fantastical) creatures…

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Interview: Janis Hubschman

Image is the book cover for TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME: STORIES by Janis Hubschman; title card for the new interview with Melissa Benton Barker.

  In her debut short story collection, Take Me With You Next Time, Janis Hubschman illuminates the inner lives of girls and women by guiding the reader through the intricate crevices of her characters’ psyches—the thoughts and feelings that we…

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