In her debut collection, “Slight,” Nat Holtzmann mines the dark hills of girlhood with brevity and wit, blurring the lines of short fiction and prose poetry. Her puckish compressions crack wide a landscape of harrowing play both sinister and soft. Reuniting this complicated body of work as a single volume, TEMPER Press presents an expanded Slight, updated with an all-new prologue and—in particular—a poignant afterword reflecting on these stories’ geneses and afterlives, in conversation with Holtzmann’s closest collaborators. In concert, these sly and troubling pages collect something more than the sum of their curious parts: both comforting and confounding, Holtzmann’s cursed book splints the broken leg of girlhood and sets its patterns running for their lives.