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Spring 1989 • Vol. XI No. 2 Fiction |

A Winter Date

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W. Scott Olsen teaches at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he also edits the literary magazine Ascent. His most recent book is A Moment with Strangers (NDSU Press, 2016).

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