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From "Sportsmanship" by Richard M. Lange, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "At nine o’clock, Carla decided that she was too hungry to care how one angle within a triangle could be deduced from the other two and closed her textbook." #literature

From "Blood" by Roy Parvin, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Only Marco’s heart raced most days. By now, four-plus years removed from his double victories in the 1998 Giro and Tour de France, it was an open secret that the great climber was in steep decline." #literature

From "The Devil's Oatmeal" by Kathleen Founds @kathleenfounds, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: #graphicnovels

From "In Bonny Doon" by Christopher Buckley, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition: "2 slim apple trees flourished outside your studio, a dozen redwoods and Sierra Red Firs edging a circle of salt grass..." #poetry

From "Six Drunk Boys In A Dodge Coronet" by Miles Harvey, @MilesHa91389803 CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Decades later, they can’t agree on how it happened or who was behind the wheel or what stretch of Roosevelt Road they were on when it took place..." #literature

From "The Bookman Vanishes" by Priscilla Turner, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "We drove overland like travelers in the Old West, across Texas in the oven-baked landscape of June." #literature

From "Barback" by Dan Millar, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "It’s a strange angle, viewing this from a crouched position where sideways movement across the rubber mats causes tire marks on your knees." #poetry

From "Bad Fat" by Lou Mathews, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Maugh’s latest was about a bat colony in New York that starved to death, attacked by this white fungus that made them burn calories even while hibernating." #literature

From "The Great Mirror" by Karen Joy Fowler, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Recognizing oneself in the mirror can be a tricky business. I haven’t done so since I turned fifty." #literature

From "A Story From The Last Book" by Charles Holdefer @CharlesHoldefer , CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "For the last six months he’d rented an upstairs room from Mrs. Swanson, who was also the owner of the Blue Star Diner, where Von worked as a cook."

From "The Vault" by Lisa Allen Ortiz, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Some people have a sixth sense, but that’s not what Charlene had. Charlene had the fifth sense twice. She could smell twice as strong, twice as far."

From "June Weddings" by Joseph Millar, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Suppose the virus was spreading out over the heaving lungs of the South and suppose the store where they sell wedding gowns stayed open during the quarantine..." #Poetry

From "Revenge of the Limbo Babies" by Claire Oshetsky, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Aunt Betty was a bitter divorcée with a serious drug problem and a restraining order that prevented her from wandering within a hundred-foot perimeter of her own children..."

From "Ode To The Shoulder" by Dorianne Laux @LauxDorian90482, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "I loved you before I was born, forming inside my mother’s fist-sized sea, her inner ocean, her little whale." #poetry

From "In Search Of Herzog's Chicago" by Charles Kenney, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "The day had a Bellovian quality to it, by which I mean its beauty was so apparent that the world lent itself to being described in exhaustive, unexacting detail."

From "Policarpo" by Patricia Engel @patricia_engel , CQR 30th Anniversary Issue: "Gabriel never had trouble meeting women when he wasn’t supposed to be meeting women. Now that he was divorced and it was finally appropriate, it was as if he’d paled into wall plaster..."

From "An Impossible Life" by Murzban F. Shroff, @MurzbanFShroff, CQR #39: "And if there is one thing that life teaches you, it is that it remains an impossible project, it brings unlikely villains to your door, whom you are expected to endure. Why is that your burden?"

From "Alien" by Terri Lewis @tnlewis1 , CQR #39: "I was a skinny, knock-kneed kid with flat fingertips my dad called spatulate, the sign of a researcher, and by age ten, I knew I wasn’t going to be a chef or a secretary or a woman who wore false eyelashes..."