For over 20 years, Epiphany has published literature that guides readers toward unexpected revelation. Learn more about us and the writers we publish.
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The Ortolan
As he slid his wedding ring back on, he asked if I was a vegetarian. When I said no, he smiled. “Poulain is planning for a special French delicacy. Something of a taboo—ortolan. They’re little birds. Do you know them?”
American Childhood Elegy
Once I slept in a hamper of my parents’ clothes
it’s true it started as a game of hide and seek
I was six I think and chose mom and dad’s hamper
it smelled like yard work and cigarettes and PE
clothes
Shovel People
It’s as easy as it sounds in my grandparents’ letters to live a normal life under an authoritarian regime. You love or fall out of love, you go on summer adventures, defend a dissertation. The trains keep running, cows keep giving milk.
Nihao in Afrotopia
Watching Chinese immigrants shouting curt orders to Black workers in their newly learned English was often like observing a failed game of telephone, as the workers’ faces bore quiet offense.
Memoir, Reinvented: An Interview with Terese Svoboda
A conversation with Terese Svoboda about her latest book, Hitler and My Mother in Law, and how writing through uncertainty and using humor to face the unbearable truths history leaves behind.
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