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

Madeleine Thien Reads “Lu, Reshaping”

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

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The Flower Coffin

Arduus grew up working in his father's plastic flower business. When arduus died suddenly four years ago, lu and her copper colored van made their final delivery to his funeral. Lu returned a week later to collect the flower stands. The wind had toppled them, so many flowers face down in the dirt. She cried despite herself, pouring arduous three shots of cognac straight into the soil. See your broken hearted lilies. You're a rapt candy. Life doesn't ask us to pay a debt of shame. Long look. I see everything you feel. Look, you're that kind of pleasure. He was married. She hadh and two girls. What kind

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