Mandeliene Smith's stories have appeared in Guernica, the Sun, New England Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her story 'Mercy' was selected by Stephen King for the list of '100 Other Distinguished Stories' in The Best American Short Stories 2007.
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In these lucid, sharply observant stories, Mandeliene Smith traces the lives of men and women in moments of crisis: a woman whose husband has just died, a social worker struggling to escape his own past, a girl caught in a standoff between her mother's bo... SEE MORE