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Writings \/ Fiction: David Tasker<\/a><\/h3>
Luck of the Draw \r\nOld Robert Harris walked into the Lucky Dollar convenience store on Main Street to buy his weekly lottery ticket. To be accurate, he didn\u2019t so much walk into the store as hobble. He was 83 years old, and he needed a cane to get around, w...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Lynn S. Schwebach<\/a><\/h3>
Move as a Fish Swimming \r\n \r\n\r\nStanding in the entrance of my Hanoi apartment, the students handed me a spray of flowers as wide as the doorway and as long at their bodies. \u201cFor you, professor Quinn,\u201d said the one who always wore a different pai...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Janet E. Cameron<\/a><\/h3>
*Cinnamon Toast \r\n(novel excerpt) \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u2018It\u2019s not the end of the world.\u2019 That\u2019s what people will tell you. That\u2019s what people will tell you when they want to say, \u2018Your problems are stupid, your reaction to them is laughable, and I would like ...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Kelly L. Howarth<\/a><\/h3>
Pink \r\n \r\n\r\nYet another Acela Express train pulls into the Upstate New York station. It empties and pulls out again. All of the disembarked passengers scurry away, like skittish mice, disappearing down the long tunneled corridors to their various...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Daniel Perry<\/a><\/h3>
The Territory \r\n \r\n\r\nThe light on the answering machine\u2019s blinking again, and I know it\u2019s a call from my father. He\u2019s kept after me because we\u2019ve been sloppy with our message: Hi, it\u2019s Claire, [then Brad says], and Brad, and [our sons say toget...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Sadiqa de Meijer<\/a><\/h3>
Face Day \r\n \r\n\r\nA different elevator goes down there, clanging and metallic, room enough for a small crowd. The lockers start to smell, within the week, of formaldehyde staining the white coats. Soon Agnes has trouble recalling what it was like,...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":956,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/1018"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}