Short stories by Ben Hoffman
Ben Hoffman’s fiction has won the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award and been published by American Short Fiction, Granta, Lightspeed, The Missouri Review, Zoetrope, and others. His stories have been named among the Notable/ Distinguished Stories of the Year in the Pushcart Prize, Best American Non-Required Reading, and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy anthologies. He has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, where he was the 2014-2015 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow, Stanford University, where he was a 2015-2017 Wallace Stegner Fellow, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he is a 2020 Literature Fellow. Originally from Pennsylvania, he lives in Chicago with his wife, son, and dogs and is at work on a novel.
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After a mother has an affair with her daughter's best friend's father, her daughter disappears and is substituted by another, almost-right version. Eventually, as the daughter starts changing more and more rapidly, the mother loses her daughter for good.