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By Carly Berwick

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Carly Berwick is a writer and teacher based in New Jersey. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, included in Best Small Fictions 2025, and has published in The Cincinnati Review, The Vestal Review, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. An alumna of The Kenyon Review’s residential Writers Workshop, she is at work on a novel.

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Near the end of the war, my father had a week’s vacation from his job as head usher at the Paramount Theater, and he drove us from Arlington, Massachusetts, to […]

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