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Eli Waldron

Fiction

Winter 2013

Do Birds Like Television?

By Eli Waldron

The answer to this question is yes, but it needs qualifying:                       First, the qualification. Wilma, a sweet-natured woman who lives on the top floor of this building, has seven birds—two […]

Fiction

Summer 1944

Come, Hercule

By Eli Waldron

What can one say of Mr. Duplessis except that he was a nothing, a nobody? That is all that one can say of him. He was not worth the trouble […]