Tellings
Fiction, memoir, maybe neither. These are narrative-shaped things—stories, semi-stories, things that unfold, drift, or confess. Some are real, some aren’t. Most don’t say.
On the Occasion of a Retrospective
On the Occasion of a Retrospective
by Akiko Amora
The work is clean. I will say that first because it is true, and because I was trained — by necessity, by professional survival, by the long practice of saying difficult things inside polite containers — to lead with what is true before arriving at what is complicated.