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Only A Novelist Will Be Able To Make Sense of This Election

Only A Novelist Will Be Able To Make Sense of This Election

Years from now, the uncertainty and accompanying anxiety many of us have about the current political season may be displaced by different, more complicated emotions. Such perspective is cold comfort to the millions who are fearful of a possible Donald Trump presidency. For four years we have known that 2016 would usher in a new…

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Crash Sheep Plant” by Emily Abrons

  Last week’s column discussed the nature of perception, and the way in which Dan Reiter’s “Shifts” revealed how one mind might battle over the interpretation of the same event. In this week’s story, “Crash Sheep Plant” (Alice Blue Review 26), Emily Abrons juxtaposes a car crash with grazing sheep and plant life, and in…