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Lucas Southworth
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Lucas Southworth
Lucas Southworth’s first fiction collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun (University of Massachusetts Press), won AWP’s Grace Paley Prize. He has contributed several stories to the Conjunctions online edition, and his work has appeared in such periodicals as TriQuarterly, Meridian, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, and Willow Springs. He teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, and edits for the Baltimore Review.
 

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Vol. 71
Conjunctions:71
A Cabinet of Curiosity
Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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Wonders of the Invisible World
by Madeline Kearin
January 15, 2019
Outside the stars were fading and the sky was slowly rosying at the edges when we found the skeleton. At first it was visible only as a clutch of white daggers, thickly clotted with spiderwebs, compressed between the plaster wall and the heavy wooden timbers. I don’t know what I expected it to be.
Goat
by Eliezra Schaffzin
January 8, 2019
On the bus, we were told to remember everything, to testify, testify, testify. We’d heard this many times before. Remember and testify, they would say, in order that this or that bad thing does not happen again. I harbored no such faith in remembering. Nor in testimony. I fail to believe in them still.
The Bystander by Gina Berriault
by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
January 1, 2019
Someone shouted at me to grab a blanket or a coat or something for crissakes, the narrator of The Bystander says, and wrap your old man up, because after assaulting the woman the narrator’s father liked best, and after running out with nothing on but the soap from the bath he’d been taking with her, the narrator’s father is standing on the street, shouting imprecations at her,
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