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A Boy

by Margo Lockwood
Issue #17
Summer 1979
His arms are thin in the lamplight on the long table. Floods of yellow and amber light holding the June roses in suspension with him, his tan touched with a few scabs of baseball. A bead of blood has loosened...

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