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Rachel Cantor

Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World (Melville House 2014) and Door Number Two (Melville House 2015). Two dozen of her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in anthologies and literary magazines such as the Kenyon Review, One Story, the Paris Review, and the New England Review. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is at work on another novel.

Fiction

Jan/Feb 2015

Dead Dresses

By Rachel Cantor

It being an odd day, they meet on Emmilloni’s bunk, Emmi being the odd one. Tomorrow, they meet on Anniloni’s bunk, Anni being the even one. Brannilini, up top, is […]

Fiction

Summer 2011

Love Drugstore

By Rachel Cantor

The Alone Thing April 10, 1998   I saw Benny, owner of People of the Book, at the one-year memorial he’d organized for Allen Ginsberg. He invited me to his […]