“There are times in your life like that, in grief, in love, when you walk around like a live wire, meaning sparking off everything, and you go through the day dazzled and hurting.” — Anne Gisleson, “Condolences from Death Row”

Features by Jennifer Percy, Wendy Brenner, David Gessner, Anne Gisleson, and others. Plus: Padgett Powell goes for a ride; William Caverlee takes down his bird feeder; Duncan Murrell, his daughter, and a dead deer. With fiction by Delaney Nolan and Mesha Maren.