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Christopher Bowen is the author of the chapbook We Were Giants, the novella When I Return to You, I Will Be Unfed, and the non-fiction Debt. He was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Competition and honorable mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards in the non-fiction category. His short story collection, The Things They Forgot to Tell Us When They Left, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press.

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Time Machine He leaned in, blue curtains drawn around them like big sky, he reached her. The bed bent upright and crooked; machines beeped. She wrapped her fist around the blanket and clenched it atop…

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