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Jess Lacher

Jess Lacher lives in Los Angeles. She is working on a novel.

Fall 2011

Remainders

By Jess Lacher

Three months after our house burned down, I bought Morgan a grocery store cake that said WELCOME HOME in green frosting. A candle was taped in the box lid and […]

Winter 2011

weekend-readsMary Butcher

By Jess Lacher

There are days, over the baby crying, when I still think I hear Mary Butcher calling from the broken-out basement windows of the ranch house at the end of the […]

Fall 2009

A Hypothesis

By Jess Lacher

Supporting Facts: Friday Observation of nightly decapitation: Mark’s orange windbreaker, too light for this weather, sits just where he left it, on the back of the only chair in the […]

Jess Lacher

Jess Lacher teaches and writes at Hunter College. She lives in Brooklyn.  Her story “Remainders” is currently featured on KRO. KR: Is there a story behind your KR piece(s)?  What […]