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Wm. Anthony Connolly

Wm. Anthony Connolly is the author of three novels The Jenny Muck (being reissued soon), Get Back and The Obituaries, which was a Canadian bestseller in 2005. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, Intellectual Refuge and Elephant Journal to name a few. He is on the faculty of the MFA in Writing at Lindenwood University. The Connolly clan, wife Dyan and their two dogs Story and Leo, recently relocated to Kansas City MO/KS for employment purposes. It’s a return of sorts for two kids from the Canadian prairies.

Inevitable
ThrowbackMarch 23, 2017

Inevitable

By Wm. Anthony Connolly

Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2004, Wm. Anthony Connolly reflects on death…

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Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

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