Kate Blakinger lives in Philadelphia with her family. Her fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Epiphany, Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, and New Stories from the Midwest. MacDowell, Jentel, and the Elizabeth George Foundation have supported her work.

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The Slippage

By KATE BLAKINGER

Dying seems the least likely explanation, at first.