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Han Ong Reads “Elmhurst”

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

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Shara's Mo Sign Says, Kick the Devils Out of Our Neighborhood

A group called the good neighbors of elmhurst is responsible for tacking to telephone and light poles, ziro selphone shots of offenders. Soon afterward, neighborhood businesses publicized an uptick in vandals and thieves. Now, drunks cavort in the medians, and their numbers only in ease when the sun goes down. Shara believes in teliconesis. She believes in the willed explosion of heads. This is per the movie that she sneakd views on her grandfather's v c r when nobody's in the movie. You can tell when the real head has been switched for a special effects head just before the fake blood and brains burst through the face and the top

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