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Jessica Hudgins

Jessica Hudgins’s writing appears in New South, Indiana Review, and Prelude, and is forthcoming in Peripheries. She currently lives and works in Athens.

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“Aunt Steph got ugly after Gammy died, although people were often ugly to her first.” In this short story, a woman reflects on a series of charmed summers before loss descended.
Jessica Hudgins

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