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Carl Lavigne’s story “The Walking River” is a wonderfully unsettling portrayal of the natural world gone topsy-turvy.

Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: Whenever I read or teach a piece of fiction, I always think about movement. As a reader, what pulls me through the piece? What keeps me racing toward the end? In Tanya Whiton’s “Up,” movement works on both a literal and figurative level. The piece begins with physical movement, the …