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Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

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

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I Don't Believe People Can Be Defanged

Three dogs jumped out of their owner's truck, but why that day and not another day? Two dogs cannot form a pattern, but three, three is not chaos. When someone treats you like that, you just say to yourself, they don't know me. A job listing came up at a horse farm about 45 minutes outside town. It was a position for two days a week. I have not spent much time with horses. Although their eyesight is partly monocular, the visual range is so much more than our own humble 180 degrees. They share with us the specificity of a world seen from around five feet above the ground.

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