Hardened Brides of the Lord

The Cincinnati Review 17.1, Spring 2020

“I have written three letters to Brother Roland since he departed, and burned them all before the ink dried, for I could not get the sentiments right. I wished to tell him how our debates about the nature of the Trinity made me feel—as if I were wearing a hair shirt on my lower half and had boarded a boat, as if I had drunk sour milk and would be sick but pleasantly so—but I could not do so in a way that transcended the fleshly and temporal world, and I think he would be horrified by such an accounting of the female body.”

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Named an “Other Distinguished Story” in The Best American Short Stories 2021.