52: The Story Behind the Story – A Reading and Discussion with Itto and Mekiya Outini

In this episode, we read one of our short stories, “Ten Years,” originally published in Modern Literature, a work of speculative fiction that examines the toll that societal pressures and generational trauma can take on the body and mind and asks what happens when your own country leaves you behind. We follow the reading with a discussion of these themes and share the story behind this story: how it came to be.