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by Aashish Kaul Sergei Dovlatov’s comic masterpiece The Suitcase begins with the author’s brief, pathetic conversation with a clerk at

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by Stephen Sewell My mother was the storyteller in our family. My mother and her sisters. They knew the truth

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by Stephen Sewell My father was nearly killed in a motorbike accident a month after I was born.  When he

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by Stephen Sewell My father had six brothers and a sister. They had big families in those days, especially the

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by Stephen Sewell I suppose I’ve been a writer all my life, and it’s always been getting me into trouble.

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by Anthony Lawrence “What a view, I said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the

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by Anthony Lawrence Swamp Riddles: Robert Adamson In 1978, my mother met me at the door and handed me a

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by Anthony Lawrence Photo of Sharon Olds by Matt Valentine Sometime in 1990 I was at home in Geraldton, WA.

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