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Spring 1987 • Vol. IX No. 2 • Fiction |

Sincerely, Yours

Isaac the Millionaire was in love. “I have met a lady,” he said, “of the first degree.”

The chorus of afternoon prayer ground to a discontinuous mutter. There was turbulence, then an anxious calm. A bench scraped, a book fell, and Old Man Medisky jumped to bring it to his lips in atonement.

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Melvin Jules Bukiet's "Levitation" became a part of his first book (well, first finished, second published) Stories of an Imaginary Childhood. Besides that, he's published five novels and two other collections. He's also edited three anthologies. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

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