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Susan Engberg

Fiction

Winter 1982

The Lap of Peace

By Susan Engberg

It is the end of the morning, a hot Saturday in June. Richard and Claire are having an argument, of sorts. Now there is a breathing spell. Claire, seven months […]

Fiction

Summer 1968

Lambs of God

By Susan Engberg

Everything was coming to life, Helene said. Did the girls see how green the willows were? She pointed to a watery fissure between mounded fields. If Leonard wouldn’t drive so […]