Xhenet Aliu???s fiction has appeared in such journals as Glimmer Train, Hobart, and the Barcelona Review. ???Xhenet Aliu???s stories evoke with fierceness and a resilient compassion what it means to be disadvantaged and self-destructive, her characters negotiating the kind of homes in which your bed and your mother might be missing, or in which your husband might be raising venomous snakes in your