Suburban Blues
Michael Tillman
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Michael Tillman is a graduate student at Georgia State University. “I live in a town called Dallas, which is right
on the edge of the middle of nowhere in a vast pine forest, but with no shortage of Wal-Marts.” His work has appeared in Open Minds Quarterly, Ceremony, Children Churches and Daddies, and elsewhere.