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The Triangle jody shotwell

All right, so there isn't any conflict. What is this stuff conflict, anyway? Con-

flict, say the editors, is something that no good story should be without. Maybe I agree with them, I don't know. I guess I must though, because I'm lying awake nights, in this worldful of conflict, trying to think of some conflicts fictional enough to be believable. But this time I'm saying to hell with it. Like Saroyan says in Twenty Thousand Assyrians, I'm not trying to sell this story to the Post, or Harper's, etc., etc.; I've just got something I want to tell somebody, so that somebody will know it besides me. Even if it's only some little junior reader on some little Quarterly. He's got to read it, it's part of his job. Therefore I say, little reader, before you toss this in the Rejected basket, come with me to my wonderful city, and share with me a part of the past that I cannot forget.

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