American Short Fiction

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ASF 47 cover

Spring '10 is here. The stories in this issue have acrobats, cowboys, and a brick-carrying babysitter. With new writing from Susan Steinberg, Laura van den Berg, Jeff Parker, Matt Bell, Marie-Helene Bertino, Mike Young, and Jamey Hecht.

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Featured Story

Our featured story is "The Peripatetic Coffin," by Ethan Rutherford, which will appear in BASS 2009.

The sound of iron walls adjusting to the underwater pressure around you was like the sound of improbability announcing itself: a broad, deep, awake-you-from-your-stupor kind of salvo. The first time we heard it, we thought we were dead; the second time we heard it, we realized we were.

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