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Jessica Walker

Jessica Walker is an MFA candidate at the University of Virginia, where she is the fiction editor for Meridian. Her short stories are published or forthcoming in the American Scholar, Best Small Fictions, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter Online, and elsewhere. She is at work on her first novel.

July/Aug 2019

Another Girl

By Jessica Walker

When the police come, I—like a dummy, like a child—let them in. Give them my name, my age, my respect, access to my home. They are here to see my […]