Jen Silverman | The Sun Magazine

Jen Silverman

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Jen Silverman is the author of the story collection The Island Dwellers and the novels We Play Ourselves and There's Going to Be Trouble, which is forthcoming from Random house in April 2024. Jen also writes for the theater and TV and draws nihilistic pandas on Instagram: @this_panda_is_sad.

— From October 2023
Fiction

Scale

She had read of various roughened skin patches that the internet described as “scales,” but these were not those. These were not, in fact, human.

October 2023
Fiction

The Children Are Fragile

It was after this, in the three or four weeks before she stopped coming to class entirely, that Sheila started bringing in the Murder Plays.

April 2021
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