Nina is a nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of Arizona, where she is a writing instructor and the nonfiction editor of Sonora Review. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Puerto del Sol, Hobart, Mid-American Review, Brevity, Booth, Phoebe, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a collection of nonfiction stories about intimacies, real and imagined.

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Sons & Other Strangers

By NINA BOUTSIKARIS

“Two girls stand in line at the coffee shop wearing prairie sundresses and red lipstick, trying to remember the lyrics to a song.”