Thanksgiving had just ended when the weather report predicted a major snowfall overnight. With the Midwesterner’s prescience of being snowed in (and possibly losing electric
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Joyce Becker Lee received her MFA from Northwestern University, where she was nominated for The Best New American Voices. Her publishing credits include, among others, The First Line, Cicada, MemoryHouse, Prairies North, Folklore, Escape Into Life, Jerry Jazz Musician, and Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dog Did That? Her first collection of short stories, Casualties, will be published in 2023 from Tortoise Books. She lives and writes in the Chicago area, where she heads her local Arts Commission. Above all, she is a devoted Bubbe to her three grandchildren.