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JOE DAVIES鈥 writing has appeared in the Dublin Review, eFiction India, PRISM international, Grain, the Missouri Review, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, and previously in Queen鈥檚 Quarterly. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario, and aspires to no other claim to fame.
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