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Fall 2013 • Vol. XXXV No. 4 • Fiction |

Cicadas

By Austin Smith

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Austin Smith is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. He has had poems published in the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, Yale Review, Pleiades, Poetry East, and others. His first collection of poems, Almanac, was chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Contemporary Poets Series and will be published by Princeton University Press.

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