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Debbie Weingarten

Debbie Weingarten is a writer based in Tucson, Arizona. Her work has appeared in Civil Eats, Terrain: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments, The Establishment, The Manifest-Station and others. She is a regular contributor to Edible Baja Arizona. Her fiction placed in a Glimmer Train Press contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She received two 2016 Arizona Press Club Awards and is nominated for the 2016 Best of Food Writing. Visit her website at www.cactuswrenwriting.com or follow her on Twitter @cactuswrenwrite.

Body of WorkMay 25, 2016

The Mule Deer

By Debbie Weingarten

When my oldest son is the size of an apple, my belly begins to push out against my overalls. It is late summer, and the monsoons have brought a week of night rain in the Arizona desert.

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