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Matthew Socia

Matthew Socia

Matthew Socia’s stories have appeared in Tin House, Southern Indiana Review, Potomac Review, and elsewhere. He has received a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Writers’ Room of Boston. He has an MFA from Emerson College. Originally from northern Michigan, he now lives in central Connecticut.

Jan/Feb 2019

The First Bed

By Matthew Socia

The feeling came again, just as confusing. I was in the cereal aisle and said aloud—in a quiet madman voice, unbidden by anything, completely beyond my control—what I’d said so […]