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Fall 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 4 • Rural Spaces |

Deer Head Hoop

By Kai Carlson-Wee

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Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL (2018) and The Cloudmaker’s Key (forthcoming in 2027), both from BOA Editions. He has received a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.

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TruthFinder1982

By Kai Carlson-Wee

Migraines made me tremble at the light,suffering laptops, cell phone spreadsheets,hours in night rooms studying the contoursof Little Saint James — inlets, outlets,building roofs displayed on Google Maps.Years when things were wild […]

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Mattress

By Kai Carlson-Wee

This guy, my friend, wanted me to make love to his wife on the mattress. He wanted to watch. I said, I’m not getting involved in some freaky shit. I […]

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