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Frederick Morgan

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The Promise

A million souls wandered out at midnight into the Great American Nature Theatre, a scooped-out place beneath Arizona stars. Many held hands, all looked alike: they had eaten their suppers of roadside meat, the daily drug was bubbling in their ears [...]

The Murder

When I heard the screaming, I ran back through the woods— about two hundred yards, I guess—to the clearing. I was tired—please understand—and somewhat confused, having no idea what so suddenly could have gone wrong with my father, whom I'd le [...]