Description: Winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
“Hive” by Mary Kuryla appears in the Spring 2021 Issue of The Paris Review
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Weary of rundown motels and long nights sleeping in her mother’s car, Olya wants nothing more than a home. It seems she might finally find one with Jack, her mother’s cousin who lives in a tumbledown ranch in Southern California’s Inland Empire. But safety is not all that it seems.