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Emeline Atwood

Emeline Atwood is a graduate of Harvard College and the Michener Center for Writers. She writes both fiction and poetry. “The Orphanage” is part of her recently completed collection of linked short stories. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Fiction

Winter 2023

The Orphanage

By Emeline Atwood

It started as a conversation about a neighbor my sister and I both knew who’d asked a friend of a friend of a friend, whom this neighbor had met only […]