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Fall 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 4 • Visitation |

The Cinderblock Man

By Sam Simas

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Sam Simas (he/him) is a queer Luso-American writer and translator. His work has been published in New England Review, Southern Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, and other literary magazines. A PhD student in fiction at the University of Cincinnati, Simas is hard at work on a novel.

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