Look for my story "Laden Things" next year in WomenArts Quarterly Journal: http://www.vivacepress.com/waq. Also look for an excerpt from my one-act monologue "Recluse" soon in Ozone Park Journal: http://ozoneparkjournal.org/
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Aug.07.2010 - 8:22 am
“How come you don’t write postcards like your friends?”
I sat near the foot of Scalla di Spangna, or Spanish Steps, catching my breath after having climbed up and down the 138...
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Jan.16.2010 - 9:39 am
I’ve never liked the concept of favorites. Among my siblings, being called The Favorite – Mom’s or Dad’s – was rarely spat at another sibling as compliment. When we were children...
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Aug.23.2009 - 8:29 am
Excerpts from Saint Mary’s Academy Fioretti ‘49 I. We bid farewell in...
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Feb.17.2009 - 2:54 pm
The following was overheard outside the hotel hosting the recent AWP conference:
Anonymous Chicagoan 1: What are all these people here for?
Anonymous Chicagoan 2: It's some...
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Short Story:
Honor
Published Reviews
Apr.10.2006
Published by Publishers Weekly
Set during the 1970s in a neighborhood of eastern Europeans near the shores of Lake Michigan, this crisp, self-assured tale of five girls, ranging in age from 11 to 13, is told...
About Karen Lee
Karen Lee Boren received her MFA from Wichita State University and a PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She teaches literature and creative writing at Rhode Island College. Her fiction has appeared in the Florida Review,Night Train, ...
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