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Colin Barrett Reads “A Shooting in Rathreedane”

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

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The First Death You've Seen on the Job

Nunan and swift were called to the scene of a murder in balonar. A group of five boys had been crossing the road, all wearing branded hoodies. Nunan swerved her squad car onto the curb then unclipped her seat belt. She came right up behind the boy, grabbed a fistful of his collar and shoved him against the parkanot wall so forcefully that her own hat went twirling to the ground. Now that nonan had let him go, she stepped up to the boy's friends, picked up the boy's cap and said: 'You know what? You can't be shown up to the family's door with that poor er's blood

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