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That was it. I had no idea what else to read. I paced the neighborhood, in Chicago by now, the baby in a backpack, the toddler in the stroller. Old women came up and chided me about the baby’s uncovered head.
~from "Dearth"
by Angela Woodward
AGNI Online
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Dearth
The day before the public library closed for the pandemic, a book I’d requested months earlier came in. I sat out the first weeks of my isolation lost in Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, the…
