Adults and Other Children is Miriam Cohen's debut collection. Her stories have appeared in the Black Warrior Review, StoryQuarterly, West Branch Wired, Cream City Review, the Florida Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Cimarron Review, Carve, the Bennington Review, Fugue, Hobart, Image, Witness, Electric Lit, and Third Coast. The recipient of a Carol Houck Smith Fiction fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, she received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Although the children are told they should send a card to everyone in their class, George ends up with fewer cards than everyone else. When his classmates find him crying, they rally round and successfully cheer him up.