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Megan Howell is a DC-based writer. She earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park, winning both the Jack Salamanca Thesis Award and the Kwiatek Fellowship. More about this author >
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In beautifully melancholy stories of magical realism, the women and girls in Softie transform their bodies and test their sanity, trying to find meaning in the loneliest of places.
A former child star haunted by a past she can’t remember. An Afro-French girl with an obsession for ear lobes. A loner whose only friend is hiding a terrible, otherworldly secret. Each of these stories shares situations that are sometimes fantastical, sometimes commonplace, but always strange. From a Corsican vacation town in its off-season to hospital rooms and a seedy hotel suite in Chicago, experience the everyday come fully untethered from reality.
