Author: Bob Johnson
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The Shortlist for April 25, 2025
Nonfiction by Elizabeth Jannuzzi, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo and Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Fiction by Andrea Bishop, Samanta Schweblin, Monte Lin, Bob Johnson, Fionnuala Meehan, and Éva Székely
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Mommy’s Business by Bob Johnson
A woman clips a cyclist with her car on a country road. Johnson captures the mother’s mounting anxiety so well I was holding my breath at one point. Kat groaned and slapped the mirror back into place, and—as if by doing so, she’d activated a mechanical sequence—there came a soft splintering, a flash of yellow…