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Fall 2004

  • Don Lee

    Their hands were acting as airfoils, producing lift, not drag.

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  • Alicia Gifford

    When she gets to Lenny’s he offers her a beer and a bong hit...

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  • Lynn Freed

    And that girls came to his house all the time, cheap girls from the docks.

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  • Joyce Carol Oates

    She knew what boys can do to girls: if the girls are alone, and helpless.

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  • Tina Nettesheim

    He didn’t want us tracking whether Betsy’s hair was up or down.

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  • Peter Taylor

    When he had passed from view, I stumbled back from the window.

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  • Frank Conroy

    I used bravado to protect myself when we lived in poverty.

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Fall 2004
Editors’ Note

Fiction

  • Ken BabbsGrog All Around
  • Rick BassThe Diezmo, Part One
  • Lynn FreedThis Flesh, This Ghost
  • Alicia GiffordToggling the Switch
  • Don LeeDiplomacy
  • Joyce Carol OatesBetween Us There’s a Secret
  • Terese SvobodaAfrica

Interviews

  • Frank Conroy

Classics

  • Peter TaylorA Spinster’s Tale

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