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Fiction by T. Coraghessan Boyle: “She’s smiling as he comes up to the car, and he’s smiling, too, and now he’s reaching for the door handle . . . but the door seems to be locked, and she’s fumbling for the release.”
T. Coraghessan Boyle
T. Coraghessan Boyle, recently published his twelfth collection of short stories, “ I Walk Between the Raindrops.” His latest novel, “ Blue Skies,” was published in May.
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