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David Sedaris Reads “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July

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

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A Woman's Biting of Her Shoulder

Royce bive wrote down a number on a page from the sky mall catalogue, and ripped it out and pressed it into my palm. This is my kid's nanny's personal line. The only people who call her on this line are her boy friend and her son. You'll always get through, and she'll know where i am. I might never again stand in the middle of the living room and wonder what to do next. It seemed unlike that someone who had just bitten, and been bitten by a celebrity would have this kind of a problem. He helped me pull my carryon bag down from the bin, and looked obscenely familiar. My people are going to be waiting

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