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Edwin Steckevicz

Edwin Steckevicz is a writer/musician who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His stories have appeared in Sou’wester, Printer’s Devil Review, and Inman Review. As Randy Black, he sings and plays guitar with a rock & roll trio called Randy Black and the Heathcroppers.

Fiction

Spring 2002

Making the Weight

By Edwin Steckevicz

“Lives distilled,” was how my first editor described the obituaries. He had written them when he was a journeyman reporter. It was a job nobody wanted, but one he learned […]