"Reading these stories was never about inviting pain, frustration, or dismay for the sake of it. Nor, I suspect, was that the case for the writers who crafted them. As Aziza suggests, witnessing is about opening ourselves up to possibility."

Contributing editor Seyward Darby reflects on her year of reading in "The Wounds That Bind": https://longreads.com/2024/12/11/a-year-in-reading-the-wounds-that-bind/

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