Carolyn Cooke upped the ante by reading from Amor and Psycho about pubic hair, cancer, and the struggle to be part of human vanity. Tracy Guzeman described the quest for a missing painting from The Gravity of Birds. Konstantin Kakaes zipped in from the East Coast and expanded our minds with his nonfiction mystery NASA physics novella The Pioneer Detectives. Indira Allegra traced a high yellow path through the collision of different worlds. Ken Weaver brewed fiction about beer writing and Dr. Owl.

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