THAT VERY PLACE
The characters in THAT VERY PLACE find themselves in settings—both familiar and strange—where they’d rather not be. Each is either chasing or fleeing someone, bound by a connection they cannot break: an unwanted child, an unloving parent, or the haunting echoes of what could have been. Long-avoided troubles resurface, stirring turmoil and compelling them to confront the damage they've inflicted and the pain they've carried for too long.
The characters in THAT VERY PLACE find themselves in settings—both familiar and strange—where they’d rather not be. Each is either chasing or fleeing someone, bound by a connection they cannot break: an unwanted child, an unloving parent, or the haunting echoes of what could have been. Long-avoided troubles resurface, stirring turmoil and compelling them to confront the damage they've inflicted and the pain they've carried for too long.
The characters in THAT VERY PLACE find themselves in settings—both familiar and strange—where they’d rather not be. Each is either chasing or fleeing someone, bound by a connection they cannot break: an unwanted child, an unloving parent, or the haunting echoes of what could have been. Long-avoided troubles resurface, stirring turmoil and compelling them to confront the damage they've inflicted and the pain they've carried for too long.
About MARY ANN MCGUIGAN
Mary Ann McGuigan’s short fiction appears in The Sun, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, and many other journals. Her collection PIECES includes stories named for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her creative nonfiction can be found in journals such as Brevity, The Rumpus, X-R-A-Y, and The Citron Review. The Junior Library Guild and the New York Public Library rank Mary Ann’s young-adult novels among the best books for teens, and WHERE YOU BELONG was a finalist for the National Book Award. You can subscribe to her free monthly newsletter, offering links to many of her published stories and essays, on her website: www.maryannmcguigan.com.
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Genre: Fiction (Short stories)
ISBN: 978-1-963115-46-8
Publication Date: September 9, 2025
