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Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”

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

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Six Corners

I used about 700 words of the pinata story in my novel Six Corners. I put them pretty much verbatim in the mouth of one of my characters as a childhood memory. It was supposed to be a placeholder, something to help me move forward before going back to tweak later. The novel sold well, but not well enough for any kind of controversy.

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