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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “False Star”

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

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The Importance of Spending Your Claim Money

My cousin Roy the forges mom had spent his claim money. That's just how it was to me. I can still see him standing in senior hall mad as hell because it was his 18th birthday and there was nothing coming to him. For those of us born in time to receive a claim but not old enough to handle it ourselves the money was given to our parents or grandparents who could do what they wanted with it. In the case of people like Roy's mom they spent it maybe all of it that very dayMaybe they took a drive to blood creek and cash the check then decided to gamble a few bucks at the keynote machines at diamond lilies. Maybe they said hell I am

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