• April 9, 2008: "Roan" by Diza Sauers

  Animals figure prominently, even disturbingly, in Diza Sauers' story "Roan."  Not content to fixate only on the way humans deal with death at an emotional pitch, "Roan" employs a harsh naturalism that reduces death to its biological, or animal, level.

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