Rosalia Scalia is the author of the story collection, Stumbling Toward Grace (Unsolicited Press 2021). Her second collection, Under the Radar, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in January 2025. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Medicine and Meaning, Big Muddy 21, Notre Dame Review, The Oklahoma Review, North Atlantic Review, The Portland Review, and Quercus Review, among others. She holds an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University and is a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist’s Award recipient. She won the Editor’s Select award from Willow Review and her short story in "Pebble Lake" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with her family in Baltimore City. http://www.rosaliascalia.com.
When the phone rang so late at night at her parents’ house, Angie knew it had to be relatives—either her father’s in India or her mother’s in Baltimore. From her perch at the top of the stairs on the second floor, she heard that it was her mother’s people: a cousin Elizabeth saying that Aunt Pina, her mother’s sister, died… Read more →