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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Fiction |

Calving

By Madison Bakalar

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Madison Bakalar is an Austin-based writer and freelance editor. She received her MFA in fiction writing from Emerson College, has been published in Redivider and Cellar Door, and was the winner of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition in 2020. When she’s not writing, you can find her baking, making pottery, playing violin, or swimming at Barton Springs.

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