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FictionIssue 35
Written by John Weir

After the loss of friends, night after night at the bedside of a dying body; after that, when I had stayed safe, meaning aloof, in order not to die, I fled to Queens, where I stayed safe, meaning remote, in order to be nobody’s boyfriend.

John Weir

John Weir is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket and What I Did Wrong, and the story collection Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Queens College CUNY, where he is a member of the faculty in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.

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