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Fiction 2010 Issue
Fiction 2010 Cover
Stories, poems, and essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, Richard Bausch, T. C. Boyle, and more View Magazine
  • Lorelei
    Jerome Charyn
  • A Simple Case
    E. C. Osondu
  • Hopefulness
    Ryan Mecklenburg
  • Bone Hinge
    Katie Williams
  • The Silence
    T. C. Boyle
  • Visiting
    Stuart Nadler

Colostrum

By Kevin Young
Fiction 2010 Issue
Saved Stories

We are not born
with tears. Your

first dozen cries
are dry.

It takes some time
for the world to arrive

and salt the eyes.