The Darling

"This was what I felt as I walked with Margaretta among the flowers. Her spirit all at once was elsewhere: it had stepped out of the woman in the tight-fitting purple dress, the woman with the close-cropped hair expensively dyed to match the color it had been when we'd first known each other. I was alone again."

Michelle Herman's books include three novelsMissing (Ohio State University Press, 1990), Dog (MacAdam/Cage, 2005), and Devotion (Outpost19, 2016)and the novella collection A New and Glorious Life (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998), as well as three collections of essaysThe Middle of Everything (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), Stories We Tell Ourselves (University of Iowa Press, 2013), and Like a Song (Outpost19, 2015). She writes the Sunday Care and Feeding column for Slate and teaches writing at The Ohio State University.

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