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Catherine Brady

Fiction

May/June 2016

Guadalajara

By Catherine Brady

Celie ordered chapulines as an appetizer at dinner, which set off the expected commotion: ten sixteen-year-old girls daring each other to try it, Celie crunching a fried grasshopper with relish, […]

Fiction

Autumn 2004

Seven Remedies

By Catherine Brady

Positive Thinking There should be more fuss, some bold stroke by which the gods announce their interference. But every day begins the same way. One of the guys on the […]

Spring 1996

Chatter

By Catherine Brady

Deanna has drawn a bracelet of thorns around her wrist in black ink, and now she inks in tiny, tear-shaped drops of blood. Beneath the drops of blood she writes […]