Author: Jeff Friedman
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The Shortlist: April 4, 2025
Fiction by Kate Arnold, J. Malcolm Garcia, Samantha Xiao Cody, EJ Kavounas, Sarah Perrin, Pete Prokesch, Emily Rinkema, and Jeff Friedman
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My Father Singing by Jeff Friedman
It’s a single paragraph that packs a wallop. Most evenings, my father sang in his chair in the living room, even though he often didn’t know the words to the songs he was singing. He’d hum the melody or sing nonsense syllables to replace the words. …just go read it, that’s like 25% of the…