I have been thinking a lot about the way things work in musicals
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. . .and she watched the paleontologists at work behind plate glass in the Field Museum. A sign posted there (So you want to be a paleontologist?) listed the courses a prospective paleontologist should take in college—mathematics, sciences, foreign languages, art, writing—and Grace asked me if all of these could be taken at Ohio State, where I’d been teaching all her life. I told her they could. “Phew,” she said, and pantomimed wiping her brow, as if she were making a joke. But then she turned serious. “I’ve got to tell you, I’m just not crazy about the idea of going away to college.”
Douglas Watson's short story "The Messenger Who Did Not Become a Hero" gets noted in Best American Nonrequired Reading
Indolence at Publishers Weekly: An "accomplished debut. . . Maria's voice not only carries readers through these pages, but will stick with them afterward."
The Wes Letters at The Lit Pub and Entropy: "a captivating venture into the minds of three personalities who seem to invest their entire selves into a relationship with a man they've never met"
Ravi Mangla at Oyster Review: "The brilliance of Ledgard is in his willingness to plead ignorance. He understands that the enormity of the universe eludes human comprehension."
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at Heavy Feather, Necessary Fiction, Wigleaf 50, The Collagist, Other People, The Nervous Breakdown, Word Riot, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 3G1B, Fanzine, and 3AM
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