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Jan/Feb 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 1 • 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize |

Black Harness

By Courtney Sender

2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up

There are so many boys.

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Courtney Sender’s fiction appears in Glimmer Train, Tin House online, Esquire, American Short Fiction, Crazyhorse, and Michigan Quarterly Review. A MacDowell Colony Fellow, she holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a BA in English from Yale. She is currently working on a novel.

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