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Bronwen Hruska has sold original movie and television scripts to Columbia Pictures, NBC, CBS and Lifetime. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, More, Premiere, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, George, TV Guide, Good Housekeeping, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New York Newsday and The Village Voice. She is currently working on a novel.

Macro-Fiction

The Big Night

Issue No. 137 ~ October, 2008

Lilly did appreciate facts. She appreciated that the sun was 93 million miles from the earth, that the Empire State Building was 1,250 feet tall, that the human brain weighed three pounds, that E=mc2. She did not appreciate the fact that her mother had decided to kill herself because Lilly was unable to conceive a child.