Mary Torre Kelly
Mary Torre Kelly lives and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. Her stories have appeared in First Hurrah, Redbook, and Pleiades Press.
— From May 1995
Fiction
Oleander
Marie loved the sun so much, she got skin cancers from it, which she perversely believed only the sun would help. Doctors periodically scraped or burned the cancerous cells off her face and arms, leaving her to hole up in her trailer for weeks listening to the radio until they healed.
May 1995
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