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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 • Far Corners Folio |

Still Life

By Averill Curdy

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Averill Curdy is the author of Song & Error (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004). Her recent work has appeared in The Yale Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University.

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