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    Nina Buckless

    Nina Buckless was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Santa Monica Review, Tin House, Unsaid and Georgetown Review. She is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and was a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in Prose at the University of Michigan in 2013-2014. She teaches writing at Washtenaw Community College.

    Nina Buckless

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    Buzzen’s Fire

    Nina Buckless·
    Buzzen told me that he knocked the chimney down with a sledge-hammer two years ago when a dead raccoon got caught between the bricks. He said that raccoons still haunt the area, rampant amidst trash and debris. “I hate to shoot em,” he said, “If I don’t shoot em’ the damn things eat my cereal.”