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Zach MacDonald was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has lived abroad extensively, working in Japan, South Korea and Thailand.

He is the author of the novel Itsuki and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, the Asia Literary Review, Prose Online, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Prometheus Dreaming, and other publications. His novella, “The Year of the Cassowary” (now “The Time of the Cassowary”) received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s 2019 Fiction Open.

An avid traveler and lifelong learner, with interests ranging from culture to consciousness to the cosmos, his fiction often treads in spaces between the known and the unknown, inner and outer worlds, and the spiritual and the worldly.

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Buoys and Grills Day, 1982

The day is so clear in Sam’s memory that he can taste it, especially on the edge of sleep, or after a quick toke at dusk out at the edge of the yard, right where it meets the field, right where he always stands, listening as the chirping crickets provide tempo to the midsummer insect symphonies, the wind whisking across the l

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We Used to Live Here

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