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Gordon Grice

Gordon Grice’s first book, The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators (Delacorte), is a PEN Center Award nominee. He lives in Guymon, Oklahoma, and his essays have appeared in Esquire, Granta, and Harper’s.

— From October 1999
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

After The Stillbirth

Afterward, I walked in graveyards, clearing away trash and fallen branches. I pulled up weeds that obscured the names on old headstones, though most of the names I revealed meant nothing to me. I took special care with the graves of children.

October 1999
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