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Sam Nam

Sam Nam has worked in the film business and as a poker pro. His fiction has appeared in Annalemma Magazine, Blip Magazine, Night Train, Smokelong Quarterly, and more. Currently, he teaches at Cornell University where he received his MFA.

Summer 2013

Do Something, Anything

By Sam Nam

Even though it will never happen, the creep wants to hug the new gal. He wants to hug her because she looks sad. She looks like she’s going to quit […]