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Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”

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

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A Woman With Long Hair Walked Into the Macdonalds

She turned toward the macdonalds and went rushing through its entrance as if it were the gateway of a predetermined journey. He saw that the forty dollars he had tried to give her was on the passenger side floor. The cashier said, customers aren't supposed to use that it's an emergency exit. George walked back to his car. Maybe she'll be there, he thought, like at the motel in memphis, waiting like a dog. Some cats are like that too.

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