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February 19, 1986

Salvifici Doloris

For a long time, we didn’t believe, or if we did, it was only in moments of veiled anguish: the flickering shapes of fictional children lashed to fictional posts, my…

BAYOU MAGAZINE | Issue 70

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February 24, 1985

a prequel to THE FLOATING WORLD

Joe threw the flashlight’s hollow beam over the cabin’s walls. His heart thumped hard against his ribs, and he still felt hungry, though he’d eaten on the road—he felt weak.…

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February 24, 1984

At the Time When Kings Go Off To War

There were a lot of things she’d done that Talia wanted to take back. Me, I only regretted the one. We had limited out on redfish, and I was driving…

THE LITERARY REVIEW | Vol. 59 Issue 04

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February 24, 1983

Tic-Tac-Toe

Just let go of the wheel and keep your foot on the gas, I heard myself think, simple as an item on the To Do. I had just left my father’s…

THE BUTTER/THE TOAST | July 2015

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February 24, 1982

The Island Theory

You know better than I where this is going, perhaps where this has gone. Maybe this is not a girls’ retreat at all, but a double-wedding weekend (your husband wearing…

JMWW | SPRING 2014

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February 24, 1981

The Winter Horses

It was the first day of chill, the ashy sharpening that portends autumn, the day the horses returned. It had been raining finally for the last hours—the dark clouds caught…

THE HARVARD REVIEW | 41

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February 24, 1980

Other Real Girls

Cold in New Orleans emptied the air. The buildings stood sharply separated from a sky now diluted, as if the air had moved one state of matter farther from wood…

THE NEW ORLEANS REVIEW | 31.2

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