April Darcy

April Darcy is from Jersey City, New Jersey. Her work has been shortlisted for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers and Family Matters competitions, the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize, and the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. This is her first published story.

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Free Fall

April Darcy  | 
Issue 67.2 Spring 2018

I cheated on my husband to prove something to my sister. When Paul’s mouth first leaned toward mine, his lips in that teasing smile that just about killed me, so different from my husband’s, I wasn’t thinking, Oh shit, this …