The Champion

a short story by M. M. De Voe

(This piece of literary fiction was first published in the absolutely brilliant Bellevue Literary Review, Vol 10, no. 1, back in Spring of 2010. I got to read it after Philip Lopate read an essay in the Bellevue Rotunda. Good times. I recently was discussing it with someone, dug it out, and discovered that my past self had some good advice for me.)

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