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Spring 1989 • Vol. XI No. 2 • Fiction |

Black Stars

By Kent Nelson

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Kent Nelson has published four novels and five story collections. His novel, Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still (Viking Penguin), won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award and his story collection, The Spirit Bird, won the 2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is an avid birder and has twice run the Pikes Peak Marathon. He lives in Ouray, Colorado.

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