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Sept/Oct 2020 • Vol. XLII No. 5 |

An Excerpt from “The Fourth Child”

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Samuel Jensen is a writer from Texas. He holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where he now teaches. His fiction has appeared in Cimarron Review, Strange Horizons, Masters Review, and elsewhere, and has been listed as “distinguished” in Best American Short Stories, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and awarded a fellowship from the Denver Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He is currently at work on a novel.

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