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

Danielle Dutton Reads “My Wonderful Description of Flowers”

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

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Is Daphne a Video Game?

Two weeks before any of this, I stepped onto another train and smiled at a pale young man. A few days later, I saw the young man again. He'd assaulted a woman not four blocks away or tried to on her porch steps. Now I am home and my family is not. For weeks, my child has been obsessed with a video game called Daphne. The first person players muttering can be heard above everything else. His footsteps on the rocky path, my child alone in their room. But now their computer is sleeping. Then I go downstairs and open the door and call for the cat in the fog.

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