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Jan/Feb 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 1 • 2016 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize |

Dance of the Old Century

By Dan Reiter

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Dan Reiter lives on a dissolving barrier island in Florida. His experiments with short-form fiction have been published in print or online at Tin House, Shenandoah, Florida Review, and elsewhere. He is working on longer things. Or surfing.

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