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Good With Boys
Kristen Iskandrian
July 24th is the deadline for our remote Writer’s Workshop with Kristen Iskandrian. Apply now to secure your place in this Workshop on the theme of ‘Building Memorable Characters.’ Exclusive for Studio readers, we’re presenting her story “Good with Boys” from Issue 109, which was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018.
I was going to sleep in a museum—with any luck, next to Esau Abraham, a boy so gorgeously Jewish he held the entire Old Testament in his name, in the perfect contours of his face. I had this theory about boys, that if they just got close enough to me, and sort of focused in,
Enjoying yourself?
There’s more where that came from.
“Good With Boys” by Kristen Iskandrian was published in ZYZZYVA No. 109. Purchase the back issue in our shop.