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Mar/Apr 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 2 • Fiction |

A Prerogative

By Rolf Yngve

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Rolf Yngve is a former captain in the US Navy whose stories were first published and anthologized in the 1970’s. Best credit: Best American Short Stories, 1979. More recent work appears in Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, Fifth Wednesday, and others. He holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson, was a 2012 MacDowell Fellow, and was awarded a 2014 Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship.

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