If you got a sweet tooth, then I recommend Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover by Sarah Perry portersquarebooks.com/book/9780063...

Thank you for your service with these posts! So same here

like even if you see my befuddled look and tell me your name, I still might not actually figure out who you are and how I know you until ten minutes after you've walked away thinking I was rude. so again, sorry in advance!!!

apologies in advance to everyone I fail to recognize at AWP this week. my brain takes an embarrassingly long time to find the connections between a human person standing in front of me and the corresponding character in my phone, no matter how much I enjoy and respect that phone friend

To the Woman Who Walked Beside Me — Off Assignment “It was indigo dusk as I began the fifteen-minute walk to the 4 train. I’d spent a long day looking for my lost cat, and was so sad and worn out that I didn’t immediately notice the car that came alon...

One indigo dusk, Sarah Perry feared becoming yet another tragedy until she saw a woman on the opposite side of the street. This essay, part of our Letter to a Stranger anthology and now available online, has moved many to tears in just a few hundred words. www.offassignment.com/articles/sar...