Vol 13 No 3
Fall 2009
Notes on Design by Rex Ray
As God Made Us by A. L. Kennedy
Burden of Dreams by Han Ong
Thor’s Day
(Highway 81 North, Staunton, Virginia) by Sam Shepard
Do Make Say Think Show by Keith Ridgway
An Introduction to “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” by John Krasinski
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Guest Designer - Rex Ray

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Vol 13 No 2
Summer 2009
At the Airport by Ryu Murakami
The Nice Little People by Kurt Vonnegut
Monsters by Pasha Malla
An English Professor by Ha Jin
Felix Starro by Lysley Tenorio
Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola
Guest Designer - Antony

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Vol 13 No 1
Spring 2009 / The Latin American Issue
From My Diaries by Guillermo del Toro
Enter the Post-Post-Boom by Daniel Alarcón and Diego Trelles Paz
The Conductor's Daughter by Carolina Sanín
Insular Menu by Ronaldo Menéndez
At the Table by Inés Bortagaray
The Harvest by Patricio Pron
Family by Rodrigo Hasbún
Hypothetically by Antonio Ungar
Fantasy by Alejandro Zambra
An Open Secret by Aura Estrada
The Dwarves by Veronica Stigger
Tuesday Meetings by Slavko Zupcic
Guest Designer - Guillermo del Toro

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Vol 12 No 4
Winter 2008 / 2009
Notes on Design by Lou Reed
We Were Champions by April Wilder
Pet Names by Rachel Cusk
Everybody's Fine by Louise Jarvis Flynn
Two-Step by Maile Meloy
Closer to the Beginning Than the End: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by Eric Roth
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sleepwalkers by Bernie McGill
Guest Designer - Lou Reed

Vol 12 No 3
Fall 2008
The Arms and Legs of the Lake by Mary Gaitskill
A Little Face Work Never Hurt by Woody Allen
The Beijing of Possibilities by Jonathan Tel
Fort Apache by Alan Heathcock
In Her Own Eyes by Yiyun Li
Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
Guest Designer - Marjane Satrapi

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Vol 12 No 2
Summer 2008
Notes on Design by Mark Mothersbaugh
The Invisibles by Marissa Perry
Rumors About Me by Yasutaka Tsutsui
The Alternate by Sana Krasikov
A Small Haunting by Shaena Lambert
Vacation '58 / Foreword '08 by John Hughes
Vacation '58 by John Hughes
Guest Designer - Mark Mothersbaugh

Vol 12 No 1
Spring 2008
Notes on Design by Mike Mills
Something Amazing by Elizabeth McCracken
Choice by Ha Jin
Eggshell Skull by M. J. Hyland
Often I Mistook Other People for Abraham by Rivka Galchen
Inside an Outsider by Wayne Wang
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
The Plainness of My Fall by Janice Macdonald
Guest Designer - Mike Mills

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Vol 11 No 4
Winter 2007
Those Americans Falling from the Sky by Fiona McFarlane
The Stars Are Bright in Texas by Amanda Eyre Ward
Methane and Politic by Anya Ulinich
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Hotel Chevalier by Wes Anderson
Guest Designer - Elizabeth Peyton

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Vol 11 No 3
Fall 2007 / Youth Without Youth: the Commemorative Edition
The Burning of Lawrence by Andrew Malan Milward
The Russian by Ethan Coen
Andrea Is Changing Her Name by Kevin Brockmeier
Seattle by Jonathan Baumbach
Youth Without Youth: the Commemorative Edition by Francis Ford Coppola
Guest Designer - Tim Roth

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Vol 11 No 2
Summer 2007
Notes on Design: Sweat by Marilyn Minter
Darkness by Andrew Sean Greer
Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Facts Toward Understanding the Spontaneous Human Combustion of Errol McGee by David Means
Bridge of Sighs by Pinckney Benedict
Still Life by Noel Coward
Guest Designer - Marilyn Minter

Vol 11 No 1
Spring 2007
Notes on Design by Will Oldham
Up at a Villa by Helen Simpson
The House of the Two Three-Legged Dogs by Elizabeth McCracken
Calisthenics, Poison Ivy, Final Cut by Woody Allen
The Vision of Peter Damien by Chris Adrian
Ranelaghs by Rachel Cusk
Some Paradise by Nicholas Montemarano
A Change of Plan by Bruce Jay Friedman
A Crisis for Mr. Lion by William Preston
Guest Designer - Will Oldham

Vol 10 No 4
Winter 2006
Notes on Design by Yves Béhar
18¹/₂ by Robert Olen Butler
Eyelids by Yoko Ogawa
How to Tell Stories to Children by Miranda July
Weddings and Beheadings by Hanif Kureishi
On the Lake by Olaf Olafsson
On Marriage and Fiction by Sarah Polley
The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro
Guest Designer - Yves Béhar

Vol 10 No 3
Fall 2006
My Latest Idea by Francis Ford Coppola
Notes on Design by Chip Kidd
Ready for My Close-Up by Anthony Bourdain
Cat Fancy by Kathryn Harrison
sidebar: Crudo Vino by Larry Stone
Where I Come from a Hushpuppy Is Not a Shoe by R. T. Smith
German Incident by Mike Figgis
sidebar: My Best Wurst by Bruce Aidells
A Composer and His Parakeets by Ha Jin
The Filmmaker's Father Prepares by Jonathan Baumbach
Our Lady of Paris by Daniyal Mueenuddin
sidebar: An American in Paris by Elizabeth McCracken
sidebar: An American in Paris by Marc Jacobs
sidebar: An American in Paris by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
God Is the Director General of the Italian State Railway Company by Dario Fo
The Boys at the Lab by Margaret Atwood
Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot by Daniel Alarcón
A Boy, an Ex-Orphanage, and a Trapped Dog by M. J. Hyland
Recipes for Reading by Alice Waters
Guest Designer - Chip Kidd

Vol 10 No 2
Summer 2006
About Butte by Wim Wenders
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice by Nam Le
Nebraska by David Means
Ava Wrestles the Alligator by Karen Russell
Stab by Chris Adrian
On the Adaptation of Tony Takitani by Haruki Murakami
Tony Takitani by Haruki Murakami
Guest Designer - Wim Wenders

Vol 10 No 1
Spring 2006
Things Are Going Through You All the Time: the Art of Kiki Smith by David Byrne
Naturally by Daniel Handler
El Ojo de Agua by Susan Straight
A Man on a Horse by Gus Van Sant
The Wild Daughter by Aviya Kushner
The Bard Award by John Barth
A Director's Tricks by Neil Burger
Eisenheim the Illusionist by Steven Millhauser
I Hold You Harmless by August Tarrier
Guest Designer - Kiki Smith

Vol 9 No 4
Winter 2005
Notes on Design by Tom Waits
The Disappearance of Luísa Porto by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Oklahoma by David Means
Blessing by Charles D'Ambrosio
Today I'm Yours by Mary Gaitskill
High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates
The Shared Patio by Miranda July
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster
Smoke: Paul Auster and Me by Wayne Wang
Guest Designer - Tom Waits

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Vol 9 No 3
Fall 2005
Animals Here Below by Eric Puchner
The Proprietress by Yiyun Li
Reading Chekhov by David Means
Little Sorrel by R. T. Smith
Room No. 12 by Naguib Mahfouz
Thirst by Rachel Cusk
Who Am I This Time? by Kurt Vonnegut
Guest Designer - Mike Figgis

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Vol 9 No 2
Summer 2005
Notes on Design by Zaha Hadid
After a Life by Yiyun Li
Chicken by Damon Galgut
The Body Shop by Lisa Glatt
A New Gravestone for an Old Grave by David Bezmozgis
Portions by Jodi Angel
The Bridge by Mary Gaitskill
The Heights by Holiday Reinhorn
On The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by Asia Argento
Disappearances by JT LeRoy
Guest Designer - Zaha Hadid

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Vol 9 No 1
Spring 2005
The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass
Cerology by Tom Lee
Frost Line by Frederick Busch
In Gavin Slough by Robert McCarthy
The Lost Brother by Joyce Carol Oates
Luis Buñuel & "Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen
Travelin Man by Peter Matthiessen
Guest Designer - Michael Goldberg

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Vol 8 No 4
Winter 2004
Abbreviation by Tim Winton
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
It's Been Just a Year and a Half Now Since I Went with My Boss to That Bar by Ryu Murakami
Ghosts by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Walker Evans Is a Spy on the Lexington Avenue Local by Valerie Sayers
Eyes of the Stars by James Salter
Mangosteen by Catherine Dupree
Almost Shooting an Elephant by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Smoke Signals: A Film by Somebody by Sherman Alexie
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie
Guest Designer - Gus Van Sant

Vol 8 No 3
Fall 2004
At the Café Lovely by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Cruisers by John Sayles
The Cosmonaut by Ian David Froeb
House of Thieves by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Bouki and the Cocaine by Ben Fountain
In the Air Room by Ben Greenman
The Goddess by Prabhat K. Mukherjee
On Satyajit Ray's Film Adaptation of "The Goddess" by Dilip K. Basu
Guest Designer - William Eggleston

Vol 8 No 2
Summer 2004
The Nimrod Flip-Out by Etgar Keret
The Skull Gatherer by Rick Bass
Puffed Rice and Meatballs by Lara Vapnyar
Lucky by Viet Dinh
Pilgrims by Frances Sherwood
Oliver by JT LeRoy
Atlas Towing by Will Allison
Lyndon by Amber Dermont
Two Soldiers by William Faulkner
Guest Designer - Raymond Saunders

Vol 8 No 1
Spring 2004, The California Issue
The Lure of California: An Introduction by John King
Twin Study by Stacey Richter
The Last of Splitnose Jim by Andrew Sean Greer
Bridgework by Susan Straight
Dear Abhi by Clark Blaise
El Mariachi by Nina Marie Martínez
An Introduction to Richard Matheson's "Duel" by Steven Spielberg
Duel by Richard Matheson
Guest Designer - Wayne Thiebaud

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Vol 7 No 4
Winter 2003, The Cinema Issue
Introduction by Francis Coppola
The Adventures of Pinocchio: An Excerpt from the Story of a Puppet by Francis Coppola
The Return of the Player by Michael Tolkin
Refuge in London by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Scene About Drugs and the Hazards of Subletting by Tamara Jenkins
Los Feliz by Neil LaBute
The Berkeley Complex by Neil Jordan
Red Angel by Eric Bogosian
After the Rain by Abbas Kiarostami
Guest Designer - Roman Coppola

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Vol 7 No 3
Fall 2003, The Mates Issue
Mates: An Introduction by Gary Kamiya
The Ironworkers' Hayride by Robert Olen Butler
The Irish Martyr by Russell Working
Name That Girl by Edgardo Vega Yunqué
Asian Tiger by Ben Fountain
1950: Friends and Lovers by John Boorman
Long Division by Michael Redhill
They Rise, They Rise! by Pauls Toutonghi
All Saints' Day by Louis Begley
On the Film Secretary
Victims and Losers: A Romantic Comedy by Mary Gaitskill
Secretary by Mary Gaitskill
Guest Designer - The Clayton Brothers

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Vol 7 No 2
Summer 2003, The Foreign Affairs Issue
The Erotic Pull of the Strange: An Introduction by Mark Danner
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water by Dave Eggers
Uncovered by Peter Schneider
Mirror Studies by Mary Yukari Waters
Bread by Rabih Alameddine
Tiger Hunting by Jorge Torres Zavaleta
Adiyo, Kerido by Courtney Angela Brkic
The Second Strongest Man by David Bezmozgis
Sex and Secularity: An Introduction to "My Son the Fanatic" by Hanif Kureishi
My Son the Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi
Guest Designer - Eric Baker

Vol 7 No 1
Spring 2003, The Love Issue
On Love: An Introduction by Leonard Michaels
The Phrenologist's Dream by Karl Iagnemma
The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones by Julie Orringer
The Lady from Somerset by Mario Vargas Llosa
Sphinxes by Timothy Crouse
Intersection by Liu Yi-chang
Guest Designer - David Byrne

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Vol 6 No 4
Winter 2002
Literary Devices by Richard Powers
Doris Is Coming by ZZ Packer
Seventeen Tomatoes by Jaspreet Singh
Blue Yodel by Scott Snyder
Try Not to Step on the Naked Man by Sean Michael Welch
Children of God by Eric Puchner
Killings by Andre Dubus
Guest Designer - Laurie Anderson

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Vol 6 No 3
Fall 2002
The Former First Lady and the Football Hero by A. M. Homes
Demons by Raj Parameswaran
Mines by Susan Straight
The Snow Frog by Arthur Bradford
Spurs by Tod Robbins
Waiting for the Slow Dance by Eric Lucas
The Snake Handler by Anthony Doerr
Guest Designer - Mary Ellen Mark

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Vol 6 No 2
Summer 2002
How to Read a Man by Valerie Sayers
The Argument by Rachel Kadish
In-Country by Rabih Alameddine
What Will Happen by Joanna Scott
Honey by Charlotte Bacon
The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon
Guest Designer - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Vol 6 No 1
Spring 2002
Letter to the Reader by Adrienne Brodeur
L'Americanina by Martha McPhee
Irish Mountain by Pinckney Benedict
Utopia, Dystopia, Messtopia! by Cynthia Ozick
Aristotle's Lantern by Kim Edwards
Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera by Ben Fountain
The Golden Chariot by Andrea Lee
Germelshausen by Friedrich Gerstäcker
Guest Designer - Jeff Koons

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Vol 5 No 4
Winter 2001
The Affairs of Each Beast by David Benioff
Seldom Around Here by George Singleton
Watermelon Days by Tom McNeal
Egg-Face by Mary Yukari Waters
Homecoming by Joe Borini
Note to Future Self by Nicholas Montemarano
The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern
Guest Designer - Ed Ruscha

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Vol 5 No 3
Fall 2001
Anything For Money by Karen E. Bender
Zilkowski's Theorem by Karl Iagnemma
The Evil B.B. Chow by Steve Almond
The Creature Lurches From the Lagoon by Rick Moody
I Run Every Day by Daniel Orozco
Passion by Mark Schultz
The Siege by James Lasdun
Guest Designer - Dean Tavoularis

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Vol 5 No 2
Summer 2001
It Is Raining in Bejucal by John Biguenet
Fourth Angry Mouse by David Schickler
Man Shouting by Georgia Smith
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos
Jimmy Underwater by Julia Whitty
The Last One Left in Arkansas by Bruce Machart
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
Guest Designer - Dennis Hopper

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Vol 5 No 1
Spring 2001
Disentangling by Peter Rock
Dating a Dead Girl by Sara Powers
Queen Devil by Kathy Hepinstall
Rafferty and Josephine by Robert Olen Butler
105 Years of illustrated Text by Peter Greenaway
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
Guest Designer - Peter Greenaway

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Vol 4 No 4
Winter 2000: The One-Act Play Issue
Be Creative by Francis Coppola
Why Write for Theater? by David Ives
Why Read Plays? by Edward Albee
Why Act in Theater? by Willem Dafoe
Boise, Idaho by Sean Michael Welch
The Voice in the Desert by George Makana Clark
Billy and the Crab Lady by Holly Phillips
The Mystery at the Middle of Ordinary Life by Don DeLillo
Who's On Top by Elizabeth Dewberry
The Stolen Child by Amanda Beesley
Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher
How to Read a One-Act Play by Paul Rudnick
Guest Designer - Peter Sellars

Vol 4 No 3
Fall 2000
The Cavemen in the Hedges by Stacey Richter
Wakefield, 7E by Gabriel Brownstein
Stalking the Wild Short Story by Madison Smartt Bell
Goodbye, My Love by Jennifer Egan
Camera Obscura by Lee Durkee
Properties of the Body by Jason Coleman
The Basement Room by Graham Greene
Guest Designer - Julian Schnabel

Vol 4 No 2
Summer 2000
Fair Warning by Robert Olen Butler
Haw River Cosmology by Dale Ray Phillips
When the Nines Roll Over by David Benioff
Bliss by Dale Peck
Lass by Alicia Erian
Emergency by Denis Johnson
Guest Designer - Mike Salisbury

Vol 4 No 1
Spring 2000
'O Logos by T. E. Holt
The Blooming Season for Cacti by Chitra Divakaruni
Fialta by Rebecca Lee
Zog-19: A Scientific Romance by Pinckney Benedict
Stranger by Peter Rock
Shuttered by David Lida
The Witch (After a Story by Chekhov) by Francine Prose
The Call of the Primitive by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Story Behind the Original All-Story by Frank M. Robinson
Letter to the Reader by Adrienne Brodeur
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Vol 3 No 4
Winter 1999
Blood on a Spear by Javier Marías
How to Tell a Story by Margo Rabb
Hiropon My Heroine by Roland Kelts
Planting Sticks and Grinding Yucca: On Being a Translated Writer by Julia Alvarez
Mrs. Lange's Party by Jenny McPhee
A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love by Touré
Tomorrow by William Faulkner
Guest Designer - Jim Woodring

Vol 3 No 3
Fall 1999
With an X by Sylvia Brownrigg
Notes to My Biographer by Adam Haslett
Writing Home by Chris Offutt
Braces by John Fulton
The Leopard Gang by George Makana Clark
Honeymoon by Ivan Klíma
This Close by John Son
So Much Water So Close To Home by Raymond Carver
Guest Designer - Tony Walton

Vol 3 No 2
Summer 1999
The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine by Melissa Bank
Letter to the Reader by Francis Coppola
Dancing with the One-Armed Gal by Tim Gautreaux
Boy Into Panther by Margaret Benbow
Blow-Up by Julio Cortázar
Northwood by Paul Griner
Guest Designer - David Bowie

Vol 3 No 1
Spring 1999
Scaring the Baddest Animal by Chris Spain
Letter to the Reader by William Kennedy
Love Is in the Little Lies by Jean Hanson
Making Book by Dale Peck
Among the 1k by Steve Almond
Wrong Numbers by Josh Pryor
Charlie Ossining Goes Downtown, Thanks to Alan Parker by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Screenplay and the State Fair by David Mamet
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menendez
We're All Dying Here by Cynthia Hartwig
The Tin Star by John M. Cunningham
Guest Designer - Anna Sui

Vol 2 No 3
Fall 1998
Vivir Para Contarlo / Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
Hats by Hilary Jerrill Steinitz
Close Your Eyes and Think of England by Heidi Julavits
Letter to the Reader by Contributing Editors
Neversink by David Benioff
Horse and Horseman by Chris Adrian
Malaparte's "Partisans, 1944" by Walter Murch
Partisans, 1944 by Curzio Malaparte
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Guest Designer - Richard Prince

Vol 2 No 2
Summer 1998
Erotomorphia by Claire Messud
War Crimes by Tom Paine
Letter to the Reader by Nan Talese
Love's Lesson by Edna O'Brien
Where We Do Our Work by Frederick Busch
Thinning the Herd by Peter Lefcourt
Attention, Passengers by Len Kruger
Guest Designer - David Salle

Vol 2 No 1
Winter 1998
The Gates are Closing by Amy Bloom
Letter to the Reader by Francis Coppola
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Advert for Love by David Lynn
A Trick of the Light by Pinckney Benedict
Public Burning by Joseph Clark
Why I Write, or Not by Jim Harrison
The Summer Sale Yearling by Kai Maristed
Guest Designer - Helmut Newton

Vol 1 No 3
Fall 1997
Ropa Rimwe by George Makana Clark
Gamberge & Silky by David Attoe
Red Spiral Notebook by Cintra Wilson
Letter to the Reader by Daniel Menaker
On The Lam by Rick DeMarinis
The Anarchist Convention by Tom Paine
Custer on Mondays by Jon Billman
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Vol 1 No 2
Summer 1997
When God Dips his Love in My Heart by Jim Lewis
Iola by Sylvia Foley
Letter to the Reader by Adrienne Brodeur
Step Men by Lucia Nevai
Always Be Closing: A Skeptic's View of Contemporary Short Stories by Phillip Lopate
Inside Information by Nicola Barker
Mortality Check by Philip Gourevitch
Consolation by Curt Leviant
The Emporers of Ice Cream by Natasha Waxman
The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
What the Butler Said by Javier Marías
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Vol 1 No 1
Spring 1997
The Baker's Wife by Sara Powers
Letter to the Reader by Francis Coppola
One-Third Up Front by Sam Greenhoe
What Happens Next? (Hollywood and the Short Story) by David Thomson
Tarantula by Thom Jones
When the World was Green (A Chef's Fable) by Joseph Chaiken and Sam Shepard
Tide by Matthew Sharpe
The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr
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