I’m thrilled to announce that my short story “Pandora” was a finalist in Solstice literary magazine’s Summer contest and is now published in Solstice and is available online. The judge was Columbian-American writer Patricia Engel. “With a strong sense of place and humor, Jan Schmidt’s “Pandora,” explores a friendship sprinkled with tension, conflict, learning, and guilt as the narrator navigates recovery and confronts racism and privilege. “Queens David died just two months ago . . . Sandra and I’d gone to see him in ICU … we didn’t realize he was dying, but David knew … Till recovery I didn’t know how to have a friend. Or how to not hurt people. How to be a true friend still troubles me.”
https://solsticelitmag.org/content/pandora/
EX-TING-GWISH-ER, published on November 8, 2023 as Editor’s Pick in Litro Magazine online.
https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/2023/11/ex-ting-gwish-er/
