Jean-Luc Bouchard’s work has appeared in Catapult, Wigleaf, Vox, Epiphany, PANK, The Paris Review’s “The Daily,” and other publications. Bouchard is the winner of Split Lip Magazine’s 2019 flash fiction contest and Epiphany’s 2016 annual spring writing contest in the category of writers under thirty, was included on Wigleaf’s 2018 short-fiction longlist and was a finalist for both the 2021 and 2022 James Hurst Prize for Fiction. Bouchard is a contributor to The Onion and a graduate of Vassar College; he received his MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His work can be found at jeanlucbouchard.com.
Food
Fall 2023
Little Boxes
In October 2021, right around the three-year anniversary of my sobriety, I stuck two square yellow Post-it notes onto my refrigerator as physical reminders. The note on the freezer door […]