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The Shrew’s Dilemma

Andrew Hood March 22, 2011 “So Jonathan Brandis is dead,” this woman tells a friend over lunch, a girlfriend, who laughs.

Andrew Hood

Photograph by Aaron Fraser McKenzie.

For something like five years now the man who was what amounts to this woman’s first love has been dead, and she’s only finding out now. To alert her, there was no shiver along some ethereal web of life connecting everyone, as there maybe should have been, or as this woman at least hoped there would be when something like this happens. Her heart didn’t even murmur in sympathy the moment her onetime heartthrob’s own heart quit its throbbing. This woman’s sister had to tell her, mention it—his passing …

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Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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