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Kaui Hart Hemmings

Kaui Hart Hemmings is the author of House of Thieves (Penguin Press), a collection of stories. Her fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly and Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in San Francisco.

— From January 2006
Fiction

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Besides the bananas, my dad raises chickens and grows red ginger and marijuana. I’m not sure how large his drug operation is or how much money he makes. I know that he smokes a lot of pot, but not so much for recreational purposes. It’s more about testing his wares. He rolls joints. He doesn’t own a bong, hookah, pipe, chillum, vaporizer, scale, dugout system, grinder, or steamroller. He’s old school.

January 2006
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