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

Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals”

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

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I Don't Need to Buy a Suit, I'll Make More Money Than You?

The two of you lean over your noodles. Steam fogs the air between you. You debate, bringing up the minor catastrophes of your life. But instead you smile and say, yeh, been there. It's not long before aden tekts you from new york. He's sorry for being a dick head. He wants you around again. he's paid for a room in manhattan to morrow night.you text back that the turn around doesn't work for you. And it's another few hours before aden replies. It's a nine text screed that basically ends with how obviously he can't visit you, and also, if you cared,

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