Author

Daniel Stolar

Daniel Stolar is the author of the short-story collection The Middle of the Night (Picador). His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a number of publications, including the Virginia Quarterly Review, DoubleTake, Utne Reader, Bomb and the North American Review. He is an assistant professor at DePaul University in Chicago. [2010]

CONTRIBUTIONS

Fiction

Dec 01 2010

Emma Won't Get Better

It’s a strange thing to be the one going through a tragedy. All day long you bump into people, especially in a place like Tucson, and they are nice, but their lives go on. Sometimes you see it on their faces, the realization: when they’re just being polite, asking you how you are, and their public face crumples because they suddenly remember. You do your best then to let them off the hook.