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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Bullet in the Brain

  • Post author:Scott Alumbaugh
  • Post published:March 30, 2011
  • Post category:Fiction

Bullet in the Brain is a short story written by Tobias Wolff and originally published in New Yorker magazine in the September 25, 1995 issue. At just under 2,000 words,…

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Tolstoy on a Late Spring

  • Post author:Scott Alumbaugh
  • Post published:March 23, 2011
  • Post category:Fiction

"Spring was a long time unfolding. During the last weeks of Lent the weather was clear and frosty. In the daytime it thawed in the sun, but at night it…

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Fiction is Dead

  • Post author:Scott Alumbaugh
  • Post published:March 3, 2011
  • Post category:General

Well, maybe not dead.  But according to Buce, picking up from Tyler at Marginal Revolution, it's on the skids. That is, they both seem to feel that the quality of…

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Scott Alumbaugh is the author of  On the Pony Express Trail (TwoDot Books) a narrative non-fiction about his 2021 solo bikepacking trek on the Pony Express Trail. He is author of a novella, Will Kill for Food, as well as a number of short stories.  Learn more >

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