The Folded Flag, Intima

Physician and professor of medicine Gaetan Sgro brings us “The Folded Flag,” a poignant short story of a hospitalized young man told through dialogue with his elderly roommate. In the intimate details of a patient’s experience and through the eyes of others whose lives briefly touch his, Sgro reminds us in this fictional narrative that the pandemic is far from over; its capacity to reveal our divergent beliefs showing us—as one fiction editor put it—“the tension between trust in authority and individual autonomy.”—Angelica Recierdo for the Editors of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

The Farmhouse, Gravel

Sun White Hot and Blinding, The Healing Muse

The Pharoah, Abaton

The Seventy: A Koan, Vine Leaves

We Are All Snowflakes and Cities, Five Quarterly