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Samantha Jade Macpherson

Samantha Jade Macpherson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work can be found in The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, and elsewhere. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Journey Prize.

Fiction

Winter 2025

Then Who?

By Samantha Jade Macpherson

A man close to my father’s age stood at the counter, hands outstretched. “I’m here about some pies,” he said. The man wore a creased suit jacket. He seemed out […]