Debra Marquart | The Sun Magazine

Debra Marquart

Debra Marquart’s collection of stories about road musicians, Hunger in the Bones, will be published next year by New Rivers Press. She is editor of Flyway Literary Review and a creative-writing teacher at Iowa State University.

— From November 1999
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

To Kill A Deer

Later, everyone would agree it was the least likely time to encounter a deer. The two young guys in baseball caps who stopped to help us on the freeway said it. So did the highway patrolman who came to fill out the accident report after the two guys in baseball caps had gone to the next town and called for help.

November 1999
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