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Nothing, really. But we're glad we got your attention, and hope we can keep it long enough to get you to read James Fleming's absorbing, intense new story, "He Tells Her a Story." "He Tells..." kicks off our new year not because it's more than a bit racy, after a fashion, but because it's our favorite of the stories we've run over the past few months. And because it pays a fine tribute to one of our favorite writers, Stephen Dixon.

You’ve written an amazing array of books, including a mystery (Duplicate Keys), a humor novel (Moo), young adult books about horses, and essays on a variety of timely topics that have appeared in top-tier journals and magazines. How do you manage to vary style and tone so effectively?

A snowstorm consists of an almost infinite number of memories crystallized in the below-freezing environment of the upper atmosphere where an abundance of moisture is present. At the core of every ice crystal is a nucleus of familial history, whether shared or individual, upon which moisture condenses and freezes into a cold, hard, impenetrable shell. In the supercooled interior of the cloud, liquid water droplets and these ice crystal shells cannot coexist separately for long periods of time, as the attraction of the nucleus is too great.

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