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Erika Krouse

Erika Krouse is the author of two books, Come Up and See Me Sometime (Scribner, 2001) and Contenders (Rare Bird Books, 2015). Her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Ploughshares, One Story, and other magazines and anthologies. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, teaches fiction writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and works part-time as a private investigator for Title IX and sexual-assault cases.

Fiction

Nov/Dec 2016

When in Bangkok

By Erika Krouse

The morning after we landed in Bangkok, my father tossed some baht onto the restaurant table without counting it. Enough eating, he said. My sister and I stood immediately, still […]