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What I see upon entering a hospital room in St. Paul at dawn.
My nieces asleep, one on a cot against the wall, the other in a chair beside the bed, holding my sister’…
Michael Mattes
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Michael Mattes’s stories have been published in the Santa Monica Review, Northwest Review, and West Branch, among others.
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