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Winter 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 1 Fiction |

If I Tell You This Is Fiction

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Jenny Lecce is a writer and playwright living with her dogs, Edgrr the Great and Ashbel, and her husband, Carl, in a tidy house with an unruly garden. Her published stories include “The Times We Cry in Cars” in The Bookends Review Best of 2016, “Fury” in AmLit (2014), and “Rector Street” and “Woman on the Stairs” in Wheelhouse Magazine (2007). Glimmer Train gave an honorable mention to “Pastoral Adjustments,” an excerpt from her novel in progress, for their 2018 Short Story Award for New Writers. Production histories of Lecce’s plays and more can be found at Jennylecce.com.

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