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Joy Baglio
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Joy Baglio
Joy Baglio’s short stories have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She's received support from Yaddo, The Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences. Joy holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. 

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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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It Is Certain
by Erin MacNair
December 11, 2024
The transition was quick––that much she remembers––like slipping on dark ice hidden under a fresh sheath of snow––a flash of hang time without any landing. A comforting, delicate warmth enveloped her as the old body was discarded. Now she passes upward, up, up through gauze pads and cupboards, folded cotton smocks patterned with pale blue diamonds, through hoses and needles and layers of insulation and linoleum as if matter were mere memory.
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, [...]