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Robert McKean

Winner of a Massachusetts artist’s grant,
ROBERT McKEAN has published two stories from his collection in the
Chicago Review. His novel-in-progress was a finalist in
the Heekin Group James Fellowship competition.

Fiction

Winter 2004

Ralphie’s Clarinet

By Robert McKean

Mrs. Gleason she noticed. Dolores Gleason was hard not to notice. The blue bouffant through which shone the bony hemisphere of her scalp, the three-pronged aluminum cane she pumped with […]