The prose is worthy of Lorrie Moore in its deadpan precision and in the way it uses humor to expose and forgive our weakness and grief. I was blown away, and I was blown away by something new on each reading.
–Steve Almond
–Steve Almond
Stories by Margarite Landry
Benediction –
Image Journal –
Issue 116 | Spring 2023
Two sisters re-visit a complicated family past while hiking in the mountains, and discover that making their peace with the past will happen in surprising ways
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Fisher of Men –
Crab Orchard Review –
Winter/Spring 2013
A young woman with a cheating boyfriend spends some instructive time in the woods.
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Simple Fractions –
Pooled Ink –
2013
An obsessive computer programmer tries to find love in all the wrong places, except for one.
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The Blanket Plucker –
The Wordstock 10 –
2012
In this comic ghost story, a middle-aged daughter is haunted by the ghost of her mother, who gives her advice from the other side.
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Scene with Sea Creatures –
Bellingham Review –
Spring 2009
A woman revisits her first marriage, and discovers her first romance wasn’t what she thought it was.
Out of Egypt –
Baltimore Review –
2013
A meditation on motherhood, a story originally called “Too Dangerous to Write.”
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