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The Forever Rachel

by Corey Quinn
Issue #128
Winter 2015-16
The Forever Rachel chiseled into a tree and many years later written in the water of a pond. Forever Rachel in her mesh hikers, stepping over a sleeping policeman. Hair under her arms. Hair on her legs. Wielding a picket...

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