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Volume XLV

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September 26, 2019

The Portreeve's House

September 26, 2019/ Roanoke Review

It was madness, Beth. I’m telling you it was madness – you, who know better than anyone what Euan’s obsession did to him. What it did to all of us.  

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Fiction, Josie Turner, The Portreeve's House, Roanoke Review, fiction2019
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/
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Corie Rosen, I Know Exactly How This Works, 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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March 15, 2019/ Roanoke Review/
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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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