Emily Adrian
WHEN THE WORLD ENDS, what will you miss most? I’ll miss running in the woods, and the buttery, grassy smell of a horse’s cheek. In Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth’s third novel, characters miss what they never knew: Earth in her prime. From their perspective, the golden age of Earth includes our own current moment, […] 
THE DESERT TORTOISE has lived on the land we call California for twenty million years. If you scare one, he might pee and become fatally dehydrated. But don’t worry, you won’t scare one. You won’t get the chance. In “Dangerous,” a short story by Joy Williams, the narrator’s mother, recently widowed, builds a three-foot-tall tortoise […]