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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Story of a Train Accident

A train stopped on the tracks and a man was trapped under it. He got one of his legs up over the linkage but couldn't get free. A tourniquet fashioned from a shirt, an ex-wife who bled him out of $1,000 gave him money to keep going. The man thanked george for the ride and started crutching at the entrance. "Honey, i'm home," he shouted as he walked through the door. George considered that movie the shining only pretended to be horror. It was really the o of your typical family, men yelling and blaming.

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