“In Our Country” by Caitlin Horrocks

The story “In Our Country” by faculty member Caitlin Horrocks appears at Waxwing:

This country used to be pronounced like this. Now we pronounce it like this. Old people, or foreign people, you know them from the way they say it: wrong. There is famine in that country now. There is plague. Now no one goes there. Even the people who live there, they try to leave. This country — and when I say this country I never mean my country, I mean this other country, over there — was once one country but now it is four. This country is now two. This country still pretends to be one but is really one hundred.

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