Anna Ching asked Forrest Aguirre:

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Forrest Aguirre Choosing the title was easy. One of my formative "discoveries" was writing the story "Downstream Flow: A Fugue". XXIX is the Roman numeral 29, which is the number of stories in the collection. As to what it means to me, I am very proud of that collection. In hindsight, there are a few stories among those 29 that were "not my best work," but they demonstrate that one must spill out a lot of writing volume to get their best work. I'm very grateful that Raw Dog Screaming took a chance on publishing it and did such a bang up good job with the production, as well. I've written a lot since then, and some of those early "experiments" have informed my writing today, so Fugue XXIX was seminal in me finding and establishing my writerly voice.

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