Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “Gathered Stones” by Sammie Seamon. Sammie is a writer and journalist from Austin, Texas, raised in a household with roots in Alabama and southern Mexico. She is currently living in New York City as an MFA candidate in Literary Reportage at the NYU Arthu…
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