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Sharon Dilworth

Sharon Dilworth is the author of two collections of short stories, The Long White and Women Drinking Benedictine, as well as a novel, Year of the Gingko. She had two books forthcoming this year, a novel—My Riviera and Two Sides, Three Rivers, a collection of short stories all set in Pittsburgh where she is the director of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Fiction

Winter 2000

The Empty Beach

By Sharon Dilworth

It rains. Les Lianes, her family’s summer house on the Cote D’Azur, floods. Agnes and her mother use old sheets to clean the floors. They work all morning, and by […]