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Mar/Apr 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 2 • Fiction |

Triptych

By L. Shapley Bassen

… while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and
I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take
away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be
seen.

Exodus 33:22-23                 

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L. Shapley Bassen, a 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award finalist, had three books published in 2014 in Hong Kong, Canada, and Tennessee. She is a fiction editor for prickofthespindle.com, was a first reader for electricliterature.com, and won the 2009 APP Drama Prize and a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship. Her book reviews appear at brooklyner.org, therumpus.net, and elsewhere.

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