Eric Shonkwiler is a Midwesterner currently attending UC Riverside. He's written novels and a few short stories, and maintains an eponymous website which has samples of his writing at ericshonkwiler.com.
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Follow THIS LINK to our fiction column to read Eric's story, "Rural Tendencies".
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