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Carley Gomez

Carley Gomez is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Gus T. Ridgel fellow at the University of Missouri. She teaches English and creative writing courses at the University of Missouri and Stephens College. Her fiction is published in Mid-American Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. You can find out more about her on her website: carleygomez.wordpress.com.

In This World You Have to Sell Something

March 26, 2021
Sister Helene swings her baseball bat across Richard’s dresser and shards of decorative junk fly everywhere in the vast bedroom. Richard, the homeowner, Sister Helene, Nick the camera guy, and I are all wearing face shields for this very reason. There is violent ecstasy on ...