Moira McCavana Moira McCavana's work has appeared in The Harvard Review and The London Magazine. She is the recipient of a 2019 O. Henry Prize and is represented by Katie Cacouris at the Wylie Agency.

Grosseto | Fiction

Moira McCavana

Unwanted items used to migrate to the dining room of my uncle Enzo’s apartment as though of their own accord. I never once saw Enzo or his wife Gabriella go in there. And so it became a shadow room whose items, in sum, cobbled together a crude portrait of our lives. On our side, however, the absences of those objects continued to exist: in my mind there remained a cavity...