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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 Being a Queer Woman

If I could not hold it together in my head then she became the June who laughed at me and everything would shut down. For a second we are really doing it good like in the pornos I saw my cousin J's but then it is all sensation a sudden tension a white light. Then I'm standing next to my bed with my jeans and my ankles trying to find the fucking box of tissues. It was night and we were in the hunting lodge and then suddenly we might be in Big Man's truck a red F-150 parked outside the floor and we were making out. Things went backward and then leaped way forward a lot in my head for some reason.

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