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Summer 2008 • Vol. XXX No. 3 • Fiction |

Boar Taint

By Bonnie Jo Campbell

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Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the story collection Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (W.W. Norton) and the bestselling novel Once Upon a River. She was a National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for her collection of stories, American Salvage, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow.

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Wasps

By Aurelia Wills

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