It is my job to gag her. Mike and some of the others have her pinned to the ground. The rest are watching us. My hand is covering her wildly-moving mouth. She is trying to bite me. This enrages me. I reach my...
Trauma Becomes You
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Karen McKinnon
Karen McKinnon is the author of the novel, Narcissus Ascending, published in hardcover and paperback by Picador, USA, and selected by Francine Prose for the New Voice Fiction Award. She has published short stories in Global City Review, On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology, and Toho Journal. She has taught Advanced Fiction workshops and Summer Writing Salons at the New School, and has attended Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences as well as the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.