Adults and Other Children is Miriam Cohen's debut collection. Her stories have appeared in the Black Warrior Review, StoryQuarterly, West Branch Wired, Cream City Review, the Florida Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Cimarron Review, Carve, the Bennington Review, Fugue, Hobart, Image, Witness, Electric Lit, and Third Coast. The recipient of a Carol Houck Smith Fiction fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, she received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
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The narrator in this story idolizes his older brother. But when big brother leaves for the army, the young boy must fill his brother's shoes by looking after their family.