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Anthony Abboreno

Filler

Anthony Abboreno
Filler

My daughter is still young enough to draw pictures of fairies on all of her school notebooks, but at other times her oldness is startling. For example, when she was the flower girl at her mother’s second wedding, she explained to me that she needed her underwear to match her dress, in case her dress flipped up. Her mom and I are on good terms: I was also invited to the wedding, and I attended, and at one point I was even asked to stand up and speak, but I don’t remember what I said. When I woke … [Read more...] about Filler

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American Short Fiction Issue 82

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New stories by Lydi Conklin, Annie Liontas, Kyle McCarthy, Carrie R. Moore, KJ Nakazawa-Kern, and Colleen Rosenfeld.

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