Letters /Scaachi Koul, July Westhale, Irving Ruan, Rita Bullwinkel, Chuck Heffernan, Daniel Gumbiner --Dad. Me /C. Pam Zhang --Vinegar on the lips of girls /Julia Dixon Evans --Skinned /Lesley Nneka Arimah --Unsound /Maria Reva --What's there /Namwali Serpell --Keep her down /Chelsea Bieker --Angel in the architecture /Zoe Young --That temporary /Jamie Figueroa --an excerpt fromThe boatbuilder /Daniel Gumbiner --Seven stories printed on balloons: --End /Percival Everett --For Larry /Amelia Gray --Tolstoy is Tolstoy /Lauren Groff --Hamzah AD /Kima Jones --Relaxation technique /Carmen Maria Machado --Half-life /Rebecca Makkai --Ambivalent /Sarah Wisby. "Inside Issue 53 you'll uncover a medically inexplicable hunger for forks, a world of unclothed single women, a bevy of dead dads infesting a city, a mystical power within the dismembered torso of a mummified bishop, and oh so much more."--Amazon.com
