Jess Charest

Jess Charest was born and raised in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York. She currently lives in Honolulu, where she is a linguist in training at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She received her MFA from Chatham University in Pittsburgh. You can learn more about her work at jesscharest.com.

Content by Jess Charest

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Fiction,

Three Things That Happened

BY Jess Charest

There were three things that happened to the pear tree, which was typical because disasters usually come in threes, and this rule did not make exceptions for fruit trees. The first was the baby bird.