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Eugene Garber

Fiction

Spring 1986

The Uncle

By Eugene Garber

How much revolver would you need to kill a man? The question, accordding to the uncle, a former agent, had been studied, with insignificant results. A blighter dark against a […]

Fiction

Winter 1980

An Old Dance

By Eugene Garber

The sun requires blood. Our dancers know how to signify that—stooping, hanging their arms down together like huge lolling tongues. We are, all four of us, enthralled by the lurid […]