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Summer 1995 • Vol. XVII No. 3/4 • Fiction |

Elegy for No Place: An Excerpt from the Novel “No Place”

Wooooo, come down now through a sweet sweet street and dance for me, but Rip is dancing for HIM instead, come down now Mister, and Rip can watch him smile in the broken glass night, dance with me dance with me, but Roger won’t, Roger watches instead, he goes sitting settled in a old lawn chair with breaks in the straps at his back, he keep smiling at Rip and waving his hands at him, Roger’s naked in his chair and he think Rip is a beautiful picture he does not want to spoil by stepping into. Dance with me.

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