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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 • Fiction |

A Patient

By Rebecca Clouse

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Rebecca Clouse lives in Iowa City, where she completed her education after Chicago and New Haven. “A Patient” comes from Under Canine, a novel in progress; two excerpts appeared in On the Seawall (October 2022, November 2023) and a third in The Woven Tale Press (October 2023). Clouse’s previous writings, some pseudonymous (as Zed Ander and  Zaarcluz), as well as her visual art, have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Prose Poem, Mystics Quarterly, and Essays in Medieval Studies.

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