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Lori Ostlund

Fiction

Fall 2014

The Peeping Toms

By Lori Ostlund

It’s Tuesday night, and Clarice and Miriam are already in bed, lying side by side on their backs, books held aloft in their right hands. Most nights, they are exhausted […]

Fiction

Fall 2009

Bed Death

By Lori Ostlund

We met Mr. Mani because we paused on the footbridge that spanned Jalan Munshi Abdullah, a busy street near our hotel, for it was only from up there that the […]