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Michael Tod Powers lives in Los Angeles, where he recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at USC. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, The Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, and numerous other magazines and journals. He is currently at work on a novel about art and parenthood in the climate crisis. You can find him online at michaeltodpowers.com
“I will be a tightrope walker,” she said, “and I will walk across the air to you.”
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