Andrew Shalit | The Sun Magazine

Andrew Shalit

Andrew Shalit lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and rides a bicycle to work when the weather is nice.

— From March 1989
Fiction

The Minotaur

The first thing that must be said is that the Minotaur was blind. Her mother — for the Minotaur, actually, was a woman — torn with guilt for her own sins, blinded the Minotaur soon after her birth.

March 1989
Fiction

Martha

Martha is talking to me quickly: she needs another doctor. This one won’t give her the proper medication. She has not been eating well; it is too difficult for her to get out in the snow with her broken foot.

June 1987
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