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Michael Dutton's Writings

Short Story
Jun.01.2008
BEST NEW WRITING 2007 (Hopewell Publications)
It occurs to him on a train, traveling east between obscure points in space, somewhere between the Connecticut cities of Old Saybrook and New London. 'Connecticut,' he says to himself. 'A state of perpetual paradox - the lone "i" of it wedged in a friction of conflicting processes: to "connect" or attach, to "cut" or detach. Restless...