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Lacey Jones

Lacey Jones thinks and writes about despair, repair, and secular aesthetics. She is a PhD candidate in English and religious studies and an assistant editor at The Yale Review. Currently she is at work on an essay collection.

Fiction

Winter 2024

Prolonged Exposure

By Lacey Jones

I couldn’t figure out how to be miserable in a way that would persuade someone to intervene. I started the descent into hell every morning at seven: one hundred eighteen […]