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Ravi Mangla

Outlander

Ravi Mangla
Outlander

She was new to the city and unwittingly dressed, floral prints in the dead of winter. She worked as a waitress at a bar in the basement, biding her time. He lived in the apartment above hers. A brownstone down on its luck. She shared with four other roommates, perpetually in and out of love, and waited out the worst parts at his place, drawing blocks of her home- town on the back of his hand. She showed him her high school, the hospital where she was born. Back home, she told him, cats wore … [Read more...] about Outlander

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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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