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Janice Obuchowski
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Janice Obuchowski
Janice Obuchowski's debut story collection, The Woods, is the 2022 winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Prize in the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series and will be out this fall.  Her fiction has twice received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthologies and has appeared in Crazyhorse, Alaska Quarterly Review, Story, Gettysburg Review, LitHub, and elsewhere.  She earned her MFA from UC Irvine and served as a fiction editor for the New England Review. 

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Vol. 83
Conjunctions:83
Revenants, The Ghost Issue
Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

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Contributor Ghost Stories
by Charlotte Tierney, Jeffrey Ford, Katherine Cart, Timothy J. Jarvis, Patricia Smith, Ryan Habermeyer, Reggie Oliver, Kathryn Davis, James Morrow, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Erin MacNair, Valerie Martin
December 4, 2024
I was educated in an old Sisters of Mercy convent school, where rumors of ghost nuns were ten a penny and were never especially convincing. However, when I was fourteen, I was in a math class and the teacher walked past me to the back of the room—I heard the movement of her long skirts and felt the displacement of air. A moment later, I put up my hand and looked behind me for help, but the teacher was still sitting ahead of me at her desk in front of the class.
A Polyphonic Portfolio of Language-Centric Writing
by Rae Armantrout, Diane Williams, Brenda Hillman, Colin Channer, Kathryn Davis, Nathaniel Mackey
November 27, 2024
Rae Armantrout   EXPRESSION   Give me your spurt   of verbs, [...]
Fredo and the Rain Club
by Jonathan Carroll
November 20, 2024
As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.