Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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I'll Sniff With You, Mom?
At 8, the mother discovers that the girl has shit the couch. Every day until her death, she orders an ambulance to carry her sister away from the house. The father visualizes thousands of dollars flying out of his bank account. In bed, the mother ponders what if the girl died? Would her husband love her as he did before the children?
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