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Mandeliene Smith

Mandeliene Smith has waited tables, scooped ice cream, taught writing, weeded gardens, and translated books into Braille to support her writing habit. Her stories have appeared in the Massachusetts Review and the New England Review. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Mercy

The children’s puppy was run over at the end of May. Not on the main road, which Pam might have expected, but on the dirt track that formed the western boundary of the farm.

May 2006

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