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Thaisa Frank works with what the New York Times has called "a tantalizing sense of indirection," in this short work of surrealistic fiction, as she writes about a couple who begin to spin the most mundane topics into fantastical bedtime stories for one another. Their narratives reveal what neither will say to each other directly and end in a surprising admission of truth.

In this 2010 Pushcart Prize-nominated essay, Thaisa Frank describes a cultural clash between a Muslim student and her professor. Though the misunderstanding at first seems poised to derail one life, if not two, it yields an empathic glimpse into a different culture.

A seven-year-old girl breaks through the hysteria and violence of a dysfunctional mother in this story of small triumphs.