From "The Man Back There"


After all the noise and mad action—after the thrown drink, the knocked over chair as Sweets jumped to his feet and ducked his head, after Sharon's near-fall too as he almost pushed her out the door—they stood on the sidewalk without speaking.

Sweets took off his coat and wrapped it around her shoulders. It had grown cold—they could see their breath—and he wanted to comfort her, but he didn't want
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—David Crouse, from The Man Back There and Other Stories

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

07-08-2012
The Children

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