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Wil Weitzel

Wil Weitzel received his MFA at New York University’s Writers Workshop in Paris. His stories have appeared inEpoch, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. He was an NYC Emerging Writers Fellow at the Center for Fiction, won the Washington Square Review Flash Fiction Award, and is currently at work on a novel.

Fiction

Jan/Feb 2015

Three Parts of Hunger

By Wil Weitzel

The lion we called the “old man” was rail thin with ribs bulging like so many horns of animals he had devoured in a deep past that no longer belonged […]