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C. Morgan Babst studied writing at NOCCA, Yale, and N.Y.U. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in such journals as The Oxford American, Guernica, the Harvard Review, LitHub, the New Orleans Review, and her piece, 'Death Is a Way to Be,' was honored as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. She evacuated New Orleans one day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall. After eleven years in New York, she now lives in New Orleans with her husband and child. ...more

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The Floating World

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To the Donkey of the Sagrada Familia

Letter to a Stranger | BARCELONA, SPAIN

You clung to the cliff above us, your brow darkened by smog and shit-splattered, your feet splayed but sure. I’d seen your face before. The same weary expression hangs on the faces of the mules who stand, shifting from hoof to glittered hoof while they wait for some family to carry down Bourbon Street as you carried this one into Egypt—Joseph’s son at your h

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“When he was still a kid, he’d figured out that transforming the emotions you didn’t want into art was best way to get rid of them.”
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“Why not?” Tess asked, before she realized she didn’t care. It was profound, the depth of her not caring.”
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