©Chris Fisher, 2012

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This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

“The Road Les Travelled” was originally published in the collection Third and Long , published by Coteau Books in 2003.

Edited by Fred Stenson

Digital conversion by Susan Buck

Cover image, “Bench Marks,” 1981, acrylic on masonite, by Margaret Vanderhaeghe. From the collection of Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane

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