Raymond Johnson | The Sun Magazine

Raymond Johnson

Raymond Johnson is the author of a novel, The Rose of God, and three plays, Love Is Like a Prairie Dog, The Prizewinner, and The Pride of the Madisons. He lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he has been “happily married for many years to a woman who continues to surprise and to delight me; we have a son who surprises and delights both of us.”

— From March 1989
Fiction

The Baby Machine

The next day was Sunday, and after church Peggy was born time after time. “Being born” meant sliding down the trough into the pillow. Magda knew that babies were born with diapers on, so that was how Peggy was dressed.

March 1989
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