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Jacob Appel

Jacob M. Appel has published short fiction in more than ninety literary journals. He is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law School, and the MFA program in fiction at New York University. He teaches at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City.

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Scouting for the Reaper

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform. This was my father’s pearl of entrepreneurial genius, the closest he ever came to a formal business plan, and it’s how I ended up lugging thirty pounds of granite onto Delia Braithwaite†[...]