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FROM THIS SEASON'S ISSUE: Spring 2012

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World Peace Hotel

Georgina Parfitt
I thought I would have something on her, this nun. I thought that being out in the world, spending my time not with my eyes closed, wearing pants, watching television, would give me something that she didn’t have. But now she’s coming slowly down the hall and I’m smiling already, far too soon, giving myself away.
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Notes From
21 South Street

MADE

Alexander J.B. Wells
There is a popular myth about the birth of modern film, which goes something like this. It is late in December of 1895, and it is Paris, and the brothers Lumière are showing their films at LeSalon Indien du Grand Café. Tonight is the first public film screening in history.
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Poetry

The last of winter

Stephanie Newman
Sometimes, to avoid sadness, I ask what I will think when I know I am dying. There, an orchid blooms and wilts. I wish I had loved more people.

Fiction

Taxonomy

Naomi Funabashi
I want to preface this by saying that scorpions have never really killed anyone. At least, not in Arizona. Not since the forties. And even then, there were probably other complications. I mean, I don’t know the specifics.

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