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Spring 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 2 2022 Short Fiction Contest |

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M. W. Brooke is a queer writer originally from the American Southwest, now living in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Atticus Review, CHEAP POP, Waxwing, and X-R-A-Y. Find her online at www.mwbrooke.com or @mwbrooke on Twitter.

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