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

Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”

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

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I Regret the Times in My Life That I Turned Away From Living

I decided that i would instead be a person shivering in her pajamas on the disgusting, puse couch in the common room. I regret this decision as i regret all the times in my life that i turned away from living. The place sang to me in a register straight out of the fairy tales id loved as a child. It seemed a place built for titania and puck and little, volatile men who grant three wishes. There was an enormous dog guarding the of the big house, an english mastiff of more than 200 pounds That opened its mouth as if to bark, but gave only a series of dry coughs.

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