On the days that I have legit no idea what to do with my dirty, third-day hair, I can’t help but rely on the easiest hairstyle of all time: a half bun. Sure, it might sound kinda basic, but half-bun ...

Joy Baglio is the founder and director of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and associate fiction editor at West Branch, a literary magazine based at Bucknell University. Her short stories have ...