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Nov/Dec 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 6 Fiction |

The Necrophiliac’s Almanac

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Laura Maylene Walter
Laura Maylene Walter is the author of the short story collection Living Arrangements (BkMk Press, 2011), and her writing has appeared in the Sun, Poets & Writers, and various literary journals. She was a 2013 Tin House Writers’ Workshop Scholar, the recipient of the Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin grant, and a past fiction editor of Mid-American Review. “The Necrophiliac’s Almanac” is part of her in-progress short story collection focusing on the taboo.

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