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Spring 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 2 • Why We Chose It |

Why We Chose It: “Two House Cats, Bearing News”

By Claire Oleson

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Claire Oleson is a queer writer and 2020 Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Joyland, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Foglifter, among others. Her chapbook of short stories, Things from the Creek Bed We Could Have Been, debuted May 2020 from Newfound Press. Oleson is represented by Eloy Bleifuss at Neon Literary. Find her online at www.claire-oleson.com

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