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Volume XLV

2019 Prose

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April 28, 2019

I Know Exactly How This Works

April 28, 2019/ Roanoke Review

When Dante laughed or hung his mouth open in concentration, you could see the sharp edge where the false teeth ended and the darkness that led to his stomach began.

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April 28, 2019/ Roanoke Review/
Fiction
Corie Rosen, I Know Exactly How This Works, Fiction, Roanoke Review, 2019
April 24, 2019

The Days of Our Growing

April 24, 2019/ Roanoke Review

I leaned in to listen to how they remembered the dying back when they had been alive together. I anticipated grieving myself; I had called the adoption agency.

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April 24, 2019/ Roanoke Review/
Non-Fiction
Holly Pelesky, The Days of Our Growing, Non-Fiction, Roanoke Review, 2019
March 15, 2019

Raiments

March 15, 2019/ Roanoke Review

“‘The next time she saw him, he was sitting under a cypress tree in her garden. She thought he was stone like the statues in Antioch. Mary looked out at him and she could hardly move, he was so beautiful. She clothed herself in the raiments of Damascus—’

‘In what?’”

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Fiction
Lois Wolfe, Raiments, Fiction, Roanoke Review, 2019
January 01, 2019

Risk Management

January 01, 2019/ Roanoke Review
Risk Management

“She reached toward him, and he took her hand again. Both were aware how thin and loose the skin on her hand felt, like onion-skin paper wrapped about a little cage of bone.”

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2019, Fiction, Jeffrey DeVries, Risk Management, Roanoke Review
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