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What is the relationship between an artist's life and the imaginative work he creates? Here are 15 fictions that explore various facets of this question, including…a Twilight Zone-esque parable of race hatred and genocide, blended family values, a fateful college acid trip, an evocation of a deckhand's life on the Mississippi, a father-son fishing trip with existential overtones, and a risque send-up of Frank Capra's holiday classic.