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    Vic Sizemore

    Vic Sizemore‘s fiction is published or forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Connecticut Review, Portland Review, Blue Mesa Review, Sou’wester, Silk Road Review, Atticus Review, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere. His fiction has won the New Millennium Writings Award and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. “From a Far Country” is an excerpt from Sizemore’s novel The Calling.

    Vic Sizemore

    Short Story

    From A Far Country

    Vic Sizemore·
    Miriam and Dorothy are just getting to be best girlfriends again. They hadn’t spoken for a while over a silly disagreement about some money Dorothy had loaned her. Then Charlie, Miriam’s second husband, got drunk and shot himself.