| Title |
Original Publication Details |
First Line |
| Massé |
Harper’s, March 1986 |
“The truth is it’s not much of a city.” |
| Where She Was |
Grand Street |
“Late in May my father drove us north in a new car, a tan station wagon with green carpet that smelled like rubber.” |
| Missing Persons |
The Kenyon Review |
“Susan sits in the dark corner of the porch on a lawn chair, swinging her legs, making faces at Aileen, the woman who wants to become her stepmother.” |
| Obscene Callers |
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“That day, the day I’m thinking about, I was sitting at my breakfast table alone.” |
| Women in the Kingdom |
Raccoon |
“Every once in a while they still come by, wearing smiles as stiff as the brims of hats, but I never let them in anymore.” |
| Wind |
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“That terrible spring, the spring I turned fifteen, was a season of storms in East Tennessee.” |
Leigh Allison Wilson 