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      <image:caption>New Zealand I love my comedies black, and this hilarious revenge story of an unlovely romance writer taking revenge on her cheating husband and his lover is seriously black. (There’s also a delightful film version with Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep called She-Devil.)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Moldova Like a Eastern European Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon, a hilariously slapstick fable of a group of friends desperately inventing scheme-after-failed-scheme to hightail it out of their country sandwiched between layers of the Iron Curtain.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brazil A brief, strange, haunting novel that pits a naive heroine barely surviving in the slums of Rio against the intrusive, disgusted narrator who struggles to understand why the girl isn’t as miserable as he thinks she should be, and challenges our own notions of poverty and identity in the process.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jackie Makes a Call, published in HamLit</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Mayor of Baikalsk, published in Southern Indiana Review (PRINT ONLY)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Abort, published in Sequestrum</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Baby Alligator, published in Nashville Review</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blind Sticks, published in J Journal, nominated for a Pushcart Prize. From the editor: "You've found a way to get right at a social and political moment without easy polemics. We even admire the Poe-like archness in the tone, which mirrors the pretense of the lives here. And you still bring us to a very human place."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rejection, published in Puerto del Sol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Emigrant, published in Fence. From the editor: "This was the first story I pulled from my pile; it definitely made me sit up! It's sublime, so triumphant, so moving."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Refract, published in SEISMA (PRINT ONLY)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Repeaters, and Vilija, published in the Chicago Review (PRINT ONLY)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Farmhouse, published in Vestal Review (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Metastasis, published in Sequestrum</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Heap, published in Literary Orphans (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rue Benoit Bunico: Night, published in Paris Etc Anthology (PRINT ONLY)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brizls, published in Lascaux Review, finalist for the 2015 flash fiction prize (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Problem of Lighting, published in Amazon Day One, finalist in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I Watched You Die, published in Memorious</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Almost John, published in Startling Sci-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond anthology (PRINT ONLY)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Doris, published in Painted Bride Quarterly (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Coronation Chair, published in The Cafe Irreal</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Pile, published in Flash Fiction Funny (PRINT ONLY)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Problem of Fluid Dynamics in Bulk Cylindrical Sugar-Delivery, published in The Newer York's Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Under The Peach Tree, published in New American Writing (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Hum of Broken Things, published in Storyglossia (not currently available)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Washer Woman, published in Black Static (not currently available)</image:caption>
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