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Edith Milton

Fiction

Summer 1987

Entrechat

By Edith Milton

I The story is that my father was shot down over Japan in 1944, about three days after I was born, and that my mother gave me to his parents […]

Fiction

Spring 1984

Dwyer’s Girl

By Edith Milton

One summer, the summer of 1922, Dwyer’s Hotel came into brief prominence. It was Dwyer himself, only 20 at the time, who found the body of the woman in the […]