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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Nonfiction |

“A Temporary Home for Lost Cats” and Other Mysteries of Life

By Daniel Uncapher

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Daniel Uncapher is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah, with an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was a Nicholas Sparks Fellow. Uncapher is a queer and disabled Mississippian; his work has appeared in The Sun, The Georgia Review, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Chicago Review, and Ninth Letter, from which he received the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Award for creative nonfiction.

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