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Autumn 1993 • Vol. XV No. 4 • Science, Science Fiction and Poetry |

Why We Care about Quarks

By Gary Fincke

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Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke's latest collection of personal essays, The Darkness Call, won the 2017 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose and was published by Pleiades Press. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction and the Ohio State Journal Prize for Poetry, he has published thirty-two books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.

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Allegory

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