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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Ghost Jeep” by Micah Dean Hicks

ByRoss McMeekin

When one deals with loss they also, inevitably, also end up exploring the nature of justice in the world: whether matters of life and death are indeed fair, or something else entirely. In “Ghost Jeep,” (Sycamore Review) Micah Dean Hicks navigates these questions through three ghosts who meet a young girl who wants to become…

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Optimism” by Angie Kim

ByRoss McMeekin

In Richard Bausch’s classic short story, “What Feels Like the World,” the looming grief over a mother’s death is conveyed through an impending vault at an elementary school gymnastics demonstration. In Amy Hempel’s classic, “When It’s Human Instead of When It’s Dog,” the tragic death of a spouse is portrayed through a carpet stain that…