As a new feature, we’ll occasionally ask our members to recommend a favorite story on the site. Fictionaut advisor Frederick Barthelme, whose new novel Waveland is due in the spring, picked Lydia Copeland’s Haircut, which he calls “funny and delicate, light as a feather, sharp as a razor.” Haircut originally appeared in NOÖ Journal.


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