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Emily Geminder

Emily Geminder’s short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House Open Bar, Witness, and elsewhere. Her first book, Dead Girls, won the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize and will be published in 2017. She is currently a doctoral candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California.

Nov/Dec 2016

Interior with Ghost

By Emily Geminder

Don’t say gravity. Don’t say go. These are the things we don’t say. For weeks, my sister walked around with rocks in her backpack. This is true. We called the […]