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Meagan Macvie, born and raised in Soldotna, Alaska, is the author of the novel The Ocean in My Ears. She earned a BA in English literature from the University of Idaho and an MFA in fiction from Pacific Lutheran University and lives with her husband and daughter in the Netherlands.

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  • Fruit Flies

    An iStory

    by Meagan Macvie
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    They’ve infested my house. I’m picturing their dirty little feet on my toothbrush, when my mother calls. It’s Sunday, so she’s trying to convince me to go to church, but tiny flies are all over the bananas and I can’t think straight.

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