QUIET PEOPLE HAVE THE LOUDEST MINDS​

Stephanie King was raised in the Middle of Nowhere, New York, and has since lived in several different states and attended or worked at numerous colleges. She sold her first short stories in kindergarten for a quarter apiece and has continued writing since. Her stories have won the Quarterly West Novella Prize and the Lilith Short Fiction Prize, and have also appeared in Loch Raven Review, Lumen, Entropy, and Every Day Fiction. She received her MFA in Writing & Literature from Bennington College, and currently serves on the board of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference.  She currently lives in Philadelphia with her historian husband and their two small children.

SHORT STORIES AND EDUCATION WRITINGS

COMMENTARY: PHILLY SCHOOLS 

When my daughter was 4, her preschool class vanished. Over a six-month period,  Each And every one of her classmates either moved to the suburbs, or enrolled in the private pre-k that served as a feeder to their chosen private school.

BLACKCACKLE:  BY STEPHANIE KING

Giselle’s funeral was awkward enough, but things got even tougher after the neighbor kid claimed that the two of them had switched. “Our luggage got lost on our honeymoon,” he told Rob.
“She could have told you that,” Rob said.

THE WEIGHT OF EXPECTANCY

Pipes banged and hissed as I heard the last of my heat fading away. The wood furnace was losing pressure fast and I knew soon there would not be enough water in the pipes to circulate heat, plunging the house into coldness.

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