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Fall 2008 • Vol. XXX No. 4 • Fiction |

The First to Look Away

By George Singleton

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George Singleton has published five collections of stories, two novels, and a book of writing advice. His next collection of stories, Between Wrecks, will be available on May 13, 2014. He holds the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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