ByBryan Hurt

Bryan Hurt is editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest and author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He has stories forthcoming in Guernica and The Los Angeles Review.

  1. So we sent our kids to the bilingual school. It was Mrs. Eagle’s idea. She’d found it on her morning walk. Turned down Milwood Ave. instead of cutting across Crescent Ct., looked up from her steaming cup of Starbucks, and there it was, a school inside a tall blue fence. On the fence were bright paintings of charming and childish things: airplanes, flowers, tigers. “L’école bilingue,” read the sign above the doorway. “English and French.”…

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