She Needs Me
October 26th, 2021 | by Margaret MacInnis
I was the reason my father was alive, I’d heard most of my childhood. Following his suicide, I wondered what had changed, wondered how I had failed him
About Margaret MacInnis
Margaret MacInnis
Margaret MacInnis lives and writes in Iowa City. Her recent work appears in Brevity, Diagram, Fifty-Word Stories, Ghost Parachute, The Rye Whiskey Review, and Tiny Molecules. Other work appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast Review, Mid-American Review, River Teeth, Tampa Review and elsewhere. Her work has received notable distinction in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading. Since 2010, MacInnis has worked as assistant to Marilynne Robinson.