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Mar/Apr 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 2 • Fiction |

Don’t Let Your Bicycle Get Taken by a Thief

By Ron Carlson

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Ron Carlson is the author of six story collections and six novels, and his fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Harper's, and many other magazines and journals. He is the director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Huntington Beach, CA. Photo credit: UCI Communications Bureau/Christine Byrd.

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