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Robert Hiles

Fiction

Winter 1986

Blessed Are the Geeks

By Robert Hiles

Leaves, clumped like brown parrots, hang frozen from elms arched over Ohio 53. The arch leads to New Bethlehem, a town of worn brick and twelve hundred people under a […]

Fiction

Summer 1988

Howard an Monroe

By Robert Hiles

“What someun wan wif a poor ol nigga’s skull?” “Who know? Cud be A-rabs. Com’nists. Debil worsh’bers. Plum crazy folk.” “What dey do wif some ol nigga’s skull?” “Who know? […]