story: “Aquacero”
author: Patricia Engel
year: 2019
where: Dubai at Big Gate’s, then at home
note: This story was selected for the 2019 O. Henry Prize collection (first appeared in the Kenyon Review).
a line: “’Survival requires different things of different people.’ I don’t know where in me this came from. It was something I hadn’t even begun to understand for myself.”
theme(s): survival; abduction; abuse; disappearing
samantha Neugebauer 