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Siamak Vossoughi

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Lania Knight's first book, Three Cubic Feet, was a Finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award in Debut Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published in Fourth Genre, Literary Mama, PANK, New Stories from the Midwest, Jabberwock Review and elsewhere. Read more about her at www.laniaknight.com.
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Sharpness

There was no getting around the fact that a writer had to know who he was in relation to guns. He had to pick them up or not pick them up, but if he was going to not pick them up, he had to all the way not pick them up.
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