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Spring 2011 • Vol. XXXIII No. 2 Fiction |

Animalcula: A Young Scientist’s Guide to New Creatures

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Seth Fried is a recurring contributor to the New Yorker’s “Shouts and Murmurs” and NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” His writing has also appeared in Tin House, One Story, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Missouri Review, Vice, and many others. His short stories have been anthologized in the 2011 and 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthologies as well as The Better of McSweeney’s Vol 2. His short story collection, The Great Frustration, was published in 2011 by Soft Skull Press and he recently completed his first novel.

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