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David Ryan

David Ryan is the author of Animals in Motion: Stories, and the hybrid critical/memoir—Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: Bookmarked. Recent and current work appears in Epiphany, Conjunctions, and Bellevue Literary Review, among others. He teaches in the Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College and the Low Residency Program at New England College—more about him at: www.davidwryan.com.

Sept/Oct 2019

Heirloom

By David Ryan

Daniel Sparks, age ninety-six, stood at his living room window and watched a fish hawk descend into his backyard garden. The hawk came each day like this, dropping a fat […]