{"title":"Threesome, and: Divorce Apparition along the Road to Emmaus","authors":"Thomas Dooley","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47170460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Raining Zebra Finches","authors":"Chiou Charng-Ting, M. Huang","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A story following a daughter and mother after the death of the family’s patriarch. A student of biology, the daughter performs experiments and studies of various wildlife, including a flock of zebra finches who had been bred in captivity, never having seen the sky. The story explores themes of grief, mother-daughter relationships, and science-based existentialism.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41615208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inland","authors":"Lauren Hohle","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Hannah spends her summer between sophomore and junior year working at a pizza shop and translating Siddhartha from Spanish. Through the penny-pinching and hot nights, we see a young woman being tested by all manners of struggles in America.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135185202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postmortem","authors":"Ann Lohner","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this story, the protagonist Kate deals with her father’s death, specifically the paperwork with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs to seek payment after his experiences in the Vietnam War and Agent Orange.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44405359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eavesdropping on a Cyclical Conversation","authors":"Carl Hancock Rux","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In this one-act play, Rux has various historical, literary, and philosophical figures speak in discussion to, around, and through one another through quotations. Through this format, Rux recontextualizes various musings on life, death, reading, and discourse.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44783497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amalialú Posso Figueroa, Jeffrey Diteman, Shanta Lee Gander
{"title":"Fidelia Córdoba","authors":"Amalialú Posso Figueroa, Jeffrey Diteman, Shanta Lee Gander","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A story about a buxom woman whose breasts hold a supernatural ability to point in the right direction. The story shows various situations in which the compass-like body parts play an impactful role in the character’s (and local community’s) life.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47256843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Namaste Trump","authors":"T. Khair","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A story about a man dealing with the politics of India under a fictional prime minister of India, Modiji, the ongoing pandemic, as well as the local trouble caused by (and experienced by) his servant, Chottu.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45269991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Janitor Who Swept Where There Was no Dust; and: The Fireflies of Belmont Avenue","authors":"M. Espada","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41664915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}