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

Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals”

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

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Aden's Astonishing Story

In the spring, aden put you up in a house just east of downtown. You stumbled through the heat, passed chicken coops and bought churtos from a vigantacaria tha. The next morning, he called a car to take you to the airport. Your driver was a white boy who couldn't have been much older than 20. Other weeks, you wait for one of the roster of drivers willing to work at dawn. Usually the same vinmes person ends up picking up in ahonda, wearing a snapback and playing j pop the entire drive home.

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