Alanna Schubach

Alanna Schubach’s debut novel, The Nobodies, will be published by Blackstone in June 2022. Her short fiction appears in the Sewanee Review, the Massachusetts Review, Juked, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She lives in New York, where she works as a creative-writing teacher and freelance journalist.

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Mr. Frog

Alanna Schubach  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

Three months after Sam jumped off the George Washington Bridge, I returned to Fukuoka, my parents’ hometown. I took a job teaching English at a third-tier public high school in Ogori, a suburb twenty minutes to the south by Nishitetsu Super-Express train, and rented an apartment in Yakuin, a busy neighborhood of the city. I […]