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CJ Hauser

CJ Hauser is a spinner of yarns and writer of fiction who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her fiction has appeared in The L Magazine, Brooklyn Review, and Laurel Review and she is the winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize. She is at work on a novel about fishing towns, taxidermy, and love.

Fall 2010

Buoys

By CJ Hauser

I have two lobsters in my bathtub and I’m not sure I can kill them. New England will know if I don’t. New England will strip away my stripes and […]