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Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”

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

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Do You Think We Should Take Her to the ER?

Gretel's temperature is only 102. Do you think we should take her to the ER? He asks, the mother descents. Gratilda hesitates and says she'll book the girl with an excellent doctor. At 9 p.m. the cat yowls. It sounds like an infant being sliced up. The father goes outside with a rifle and an open can of tuna fish. But there's an ungodly scream.

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