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Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a re-telling of Ovid's Metamorphoses told from the perspective of the female figures transformed, as well as Summer Solstice: An Essay. Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter. Winter Solstice is forthcoming. She's a books columnist for the Boston Globe and her work has appeared in or on the Paris Review Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, n+1, The Believer, Agni, American Short Fiction, the New York Times Book Review, Meatpaper, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...more

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Twins in their final days of being five made drawings on my living room floor. One drew as though…

Twins in their final days of being five made drawings on my living room floor. One drew as though dancing, swoops and leaps, fast stops and flourishes, more sophisticated than scribbles, a choreographed abstraction. The other curled over his sketchpad and worked in silence until he came to the couch to show me what he’d done.

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“There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who.”
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“His eyes they held the most dangerous thing, they held the top of the sins. Indifference. Indifference. A vacancy where human care should be.”
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“June verges. It shifts. And it holds two forces at once: the start of summer, the start of darkening.”
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