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Kirstin Allio

Icarus

By Kirstin Allio
Fiction•Vol. XXIV No. 2 (Summer 2011)

Our parents were looking for an end-run around human suffering. We left our worldly home on a foggy early morning, low clouds that smelled like seawater. “Zendo-by-the-Sea,” said our dad, Ray, trying to catch my sister and me in the rearview mirror. As if the zendo were another one of the turquoise-trimmed motels we stayed… [Read More]

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