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Shelley Berg's stories have appeared in Passages North, Confrontation, The Carolina Quarterly, where she was also interviewed for their website, Every Day Fiction, and Phoebe. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

Macro-Fiction

Senescence

Issue No. 281 ~ October, 2020

In October, when the temperature was eighty-five degrees, Sarah put on a blue wool turtleneck, turned the air conditioning in her car to sixty, and drove to the grocery store in search of fall. She turned right when she spotted the red-leaved trees—not exactly towering …