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Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts: E. A. Durden Mr. Dabydeen He will buy the goat himself, to curry for dinner he will walk the two miles this morning to Western Beef, where he will see every Hindu woman from Guyana, all there to buy goat. Xhenet Aliu You Say Tomato Shalom meant hello, goodbye, and peace. I used to wonder how people knew which meaning someone actually intended when they said it, but Sue rolled her eyes when I asked her. Ron Savage Baby Mine What people say is this: Blind Margo can predict a future by feeling the bones in your hands. Colum McCann Interview by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais I've come to think, to a large extent, that the terms fiction and nonfiction are there for convenience and to reassure ourselves, but I think if we're truly honest about it all, we would say that we are all storytellers. It's a matter of how we tell the story and how the words are placed on the page. Johanna Skibsrud This Will Be Difficult to Explain, and Other Stories He was a small man, the officer. No bigger than my thumb. When I sat with my brother at the top of the stair, I could, with the tip of it, conceal him entirely. I showed my brother. He laughed. Then came the shot. I covered up his ears. David Borofka Coincidence "There's nothing here. There's nothing wrong with your hand." Buddy looked, then turned, as though by accident he had dropped his injury and left it behind on the sidewalk. Frederick Reiken Shadow I should have told him that she missed her father. Maybe if he had this context. Maybe he would have thought, "I must be helpful to this girl who lost her father." Maybe if I had known how much she missed her father, they would be married today, Beverly and Simon. David Koon Four Sisters: Josephine & Dora Laura, Nancy & Mary But her lazy eye, crooked and brown, was looking at the aisle, and for the first time