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Autumn 1982 • Vol. IV No. 4 • Fiction |

A Private Landscape

By Melissa Brown Pritchard

Slouched in the window seat, Deirdre dutifully reads a novel for her schoolwork. Her young face is remote, attending to more complex characters than mine.

“Tea?” I ask again.

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Mr. Mintser

By Robert Pinsky

Gilchrist Avenue was a sort of semirespectable street, bordering on the town’s Little Africa, with mostly one-family and two-family houses. Our end of it also had a few rooming houses, […]

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