Nick Foretek Nick Foretek is currently writing other stories and a novel. His short fiction has appeared in The Baffler and is forthcoming in the New England Review. He has published narrative nonfiction on Syria and Russia in New Lines Magazine.

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Nick Foretek

Marissa likes to begin her stories with walks on the beach. The beaches are never idyllic because the travel agencies are always devious. After setting the scene (dusk, iridescent oil slicks on the waves, sand), her characters enjoy a brief stroll before undertaking ferocious sexual intercourse. Marissa encourages the reader to suspect the lovers are siblings, but it turns out they’re just third cousins. In this way, she humanizes the...