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Original publication
2025
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Opening Excerpt
From the storyIf someone put a gun to my head and said, When was the beginning of the end, I would have to say: my mother-in-law’s funeral in 1983. That moment when, standing over the coffin, looking down at Blanchie (two hundred pounds in the flush of life, now a prune reposing on satin), I realized suddenly and without a shadow of a doubt that I could not allow my daughter to win our weeklong argument regarding the movie Flashdance.
Story Vibe & Style Profile
Emotional Weight
1.5 / 5
Lighthearted
Narrative Pacing
2.3 / 5
Deliberate
Literary Style
3.0 / 5
Contemporary Literary
Speculative / Reality
1.6 / 5
Realistic / Mimetic
Appearances
The Paris Review
The Paris Review No. 253 — Fall 2025 · Sep 1, 2025
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