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

David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”

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

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Mickey, You Look Great, Come Softly, Darling

The radiation had also nuked his landmass of beard, so he was smooth-faced and awkwardly revealed. The doctors were impressed with his recovery, the peg tube would soon be removed. Everyone seemed happy to see him, Eleanor's family of forgiving lawn. He knew that people were just being nice, relieved for him and for themselves. Mickey saved them from that sight. Even those acne scars came across as distinguished in a new day.

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