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Posted on October 2, 2007 by Angie

Red Dog

My story, “Red Dog”, will appear in the Winter issue of The Hiss Quarterly. This issue’s theme is abandonment. Or, as THQ phrases it: Slip out the Back, Jack.

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Smibert surrounds Bone with a loving, complicated extended family and gives her plot just enough heft for both realism and reader engagement. The coal-field setting is particularly well-drawn, with details such as children at play sliding down a slag heap instead of a snowdrift. Feed-sack dresses aren’t a cliché here, and neither is Smibert’s language, which feels real and down-to-earth, like her characters. “The morning wore on like a sermon on a hot day…

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