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The Dawn

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

“There was the rabbit lying in the middle of the road, legs limp but twitching before its head sagged and went still.”

One Look Back

“Now, after days of asking, she and her mother were finally minutes away from the cabin.”

Epithalamium

“I got a collar for the boy, a nice leather number with steel studs that made him look a touch mean and inspired me to get myself a steel-studded camera harness, and off we’d walk, miles a day between jobs.”

Under Covers

“This is the story Lulu told me when I was little, since before my mom died. There’s a man. He’s very sick. … When girls misbehave, when they don’t do as they’re told, that man comes and takes them.”

The Purchased Bride

Boy

(for Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”)

Midnight, Tuesday

High on a Hill

The Gypsy Chooses the Whatever Card

By Appointment Only

The New Generation

The posthumous tale of a Russian professor’s nightmarish encounter with a former student

The Old Murderer

Honey

Ice

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