“Merciless Reverence” by Iryna Somkina

7 hours ago

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Woman in a light blue dress poses against a plain gray wall, looking down with a calm, soft expression.

Iryna Somkina is a Kyiv-based writer and occasional translator. She is a Best Small Fictions and Best of The Net nominee. She is one of the prose editors for Michigan City Review of Books' amazing team and founding editor of Sunday Morning Magazine.

Iryna Somkina is on X @tlkncrt and Instagram @tlkncrt

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“Merciless Reverence” by Iryna Somkina

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