Fiction
2020
WITHOUT PROVISIONS BY BARBARA KRI EGSMAN N
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va would tell her father about the proposal herself. For her mother had kielbasy to make for the Pope
and could think of nothing else, the request coming as it did from the Cardinal, and his courier coming to pick up the sausage by evening. And then, thought Eva as she sniffed the air, it’s here, false spring, that inevitable day in February when a scented breeze teased the lakeshore, scarves were unwound, overcoats unbuttoned. And waves of thaw spread west across the city.
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WISCONSIN PEOPLE & IDEAS
