Perfect Stranger

Theme 05: "Ghosts"Creative Nonfiction
Written By David Estringel

by Vanessa Blakeslee

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BIO: Vanessa Blakeslee’s latest book, Perfect Conditions: stories won the Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for the Short Story (2018). Blakeslee is also the author of Train Shots: Stories and Juventud, a novel, both of which received prizes and accolades. Her writing has appeared in The Southern Review, The Paris Review Daily, Kenyon Review Online, Joyland, The Smart Set, and many other places. "Perfect Stranger" first appeared in the Fall/winter 2025 issue of SWING magazine.

David Estringel
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