This issue of the OSR includes a story by Tiphanie Yanique, author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony.  Yanique has been named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” writers to watch, and has been awarded a Rona Jaffe and the BOCAS Prize for Fiction. We’re so excited to have her work in our pages, and to have had her at the Ocean State Summer Writers Conference last summer, as a workshop leader.

“What most people on the island did not know was that it was not Edie Pearl’s ghost that sang every night from the windows.  Anyone who really knew Edie, which wasn’t anyone who was still alive, would know that there was nothing of the ghost in her.  She did always wear white, that’s true.  But she’d done all her haunting when she was alive.

In the Bronx, Hanz was lying down in the bed he paid two hundred a month for.  It was a bed he shared only twice a month, on the first of the month with a knowledgeable woman he paid twenty-five dollars for, and then on the fifteenth of the month with a woman he didn’t pay for with money at all….”

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