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July/Aug 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 4 |

To Live in the Ending

By Alyssa Harad

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Alyssa Harad is the author of a memoir, Coming to My Senses (Viking, 2012), and has published essays in The Nation, Jewish Quarterly, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other venues. She is currently writing a novel inspired by the lives and art of a circle of women associated with Surrealism.

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Purged in the fire of the cauterizer—proteins hard as metal shards pulverized by drill in the longed-for, mourned-for eye, stray lash glued under the lid a casualty midprocedure—across the dark […]

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