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Marcus Spiegel
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Marcus Spiegel
Marcus Spiegel’s fiction and essays have been published in Chicago Quarterly Review, Boulevard, North American Review, Santa Monica Review, Southwest Review, and previously in Conjunctions. His story “A Tale of Two Trolls” won a Pushcart Prize in 2022 (XLVI Edition) and his essay “Blood from a Cactus” was a finalist for the Mississippi Review Prize for 2024 and appears in their summer issue. Originally from Western Canada, he currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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September 18, 2024
We were picnicking on the plains
when she emerged from the rushes.
She wore an apricot smock.
Her face was smeared with soot.
She said her name was Stina Groth.
A cloud of bats burst from the chimney
of a crumbling cottage behind her.
We asked her where home was.
She drew a circle in the silt with a twig.
September 11, 2024
With floret centers so prolific
they turn—furred caterpillar folds?
zipped mouths? burn marks?—
the quite contrary daisy faces grow
dense in Mary’s garden.
September 4, 2024
He woke from a dream.

He was in the garage of an old house,
riding one of those toy horses
held to a metal frame by springs.
It was not very fast, not very curious
about the horizon.
The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.
Monday, October 21, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents