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Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection SOMETHING SO GOOD IT CAN NEVER BE ENOUGH (Press 53, 2023); the flash essay collection WHAT THE FORTUNE TELLER WOULD HAVE SAID, winner of the 2022 Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition; the poetry collection TROUBLE CAN BE SO BEAUTIFUL AT THE BEGINNING (Mercer University Press, 2021), winner of the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry; the short story collection A SMALL THING TO WANT (Press 53, 2020), winner of the 2021 Independent Publisher Bronze Medal for Short Fiction; the memoir THE GOING AND GOODBYE (Platypus Press, 2017); and the little advice book 52 THINGS I WISH I HAD TOLD MYSELF WHEN I WAS 17 (Cimarron Books, 2018).

She has an MFA from Queens University an
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The Things I Feared Most

At age 18, I started fearing my parents would die. From that point on, I dreaded the day that would happen, imagining what it would be like to lose them in a swift blow. How many years did I have, I wondered. Was it just a few? The answer was no. All these decades later, they are still very much alive.

When I got married the first time, I thought, “How will I go on if something happens to him?” I

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“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.”
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“There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.”
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