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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Long Distance”

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

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Leo's Italian

She felt a constant fluctuation of her attraction toward him. The first time they slept together, shed found him almost repulsive. Sometimes it seemed that he heard her words exactly as she intended them,. Other times that he was deaf. At those moments, she would feel resentful. Not that she'd met any one, though who was to say that she wouldn't if she allowed herself to look? She practised a route to the restaurant once before, and plotted a path there through ivy strung streets. They climbed the hill of the genicolo, then surveyed the city from the aqua paula.

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