When her grandson goes missing, Barbara comes back to see her daughter.

(from One Story, issue number 52)

A sharp and touching story told through my favorite perspective: The Unreliable Narrator. I like how the vivid is presented alongside the blurry. Some things you are told, and others you sort of work out. Nice.

This marks my first entry from One Story, which will send me a new story every three weeks or so. $21 buys you 18 issues. Each story comes individually, in the form of a little booklet. It’s neato. So is Maura K. Johnston, who tipped me off to it.

One Story has a Q&A with Leigh Newman here.