Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 148, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 900 & 901, September/October 2016

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Joyce Carol Oates has contributed more than two dozen original stories to EQMM since her fiction first appeared in our pages in October of 1992. It was a crime novel she wrote under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith, published in 1987, and the revelation of the true identity of the writer, that eventually led to EQMM’s invitation to this most celebrated of authors to write for us. For if she’d written a crime novel, we thought, maybe she’d be interested in contributing to EQMM. She was, and her insightful work has been enhancing our fiction content ever since!

Please. You make us uncomfortable.

You are always watching us. Like a ghost haunting us...

Though her husband had died seven years before, the widow still drove past the house in which they’d lived for more than two decades.

Why? — no reason.

(To lacerate a scar, that it might become a raw-throbbing wound again? To lacerate her conscience? Why?)

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