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American Short Fiction’s 2021 Contest for Incarcerated Writers in Texas

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“Jonathan”

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“How, after Long Fighting, Galehaut Was Overcome by Lancelot Yet Was Not Slain and Made Great Speed to Yield to Friendship; Or, Galehaut, the Knight of the Forfeit”

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