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David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”

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

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The Fleetwoods - A Memoir

Mickey still had his peg tube in, but he was making a happy return to solid foods. He'd been having intense fantasies about a cheeseburger with fries, a steak with onion rings, shrimp scampi and shrimp cocktail. Mickey stayed close to his son and daughter, Ash and Star, and their respective partners, Addy and Martha.

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