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

Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”

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

CHAPTER

'Kenny' and 'My Boyfriend'

Kenny worked for a man, it quickly transpired, who had a furniture shop in porto bello. This association provided my boy friend with some regular work that was frequently of a somewhat unsavoury nature. One day, kenny and my boy friend delivered a crimson love seat to a brothel. It had to be hoisted in through an upper window. My boy friend told me later there had obviously been a very bad fire throughout the building because the bare red brick walls were scorched black all over. He said, i think they'd just varnished straight over the burns. There were shelves across the gleaming charred walls with rows of old china dolls sitting along them

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