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Spring 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 2 • Fiction |

Two House Cats, Bearing News

By Michael Tod Powers

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Michael Tod Powers lives in Los Angeles, where he recently completed a PhD in creative writing and literature at USC. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The O. Henry Prize Stories, Boston Review, New Letters, The Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, and numerous other magazines and journals. Powers is currently at work on a novel about art and parenthood in the climate crisis. You can find him online at michaeltodpowers.com

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