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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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Gretel's Story of a Loser

Gretel is 14, but by the hunter's moon she'll be 15. She has long white blonde hair, a sweet face, and violet eyes. Her parents teased her for having thick eyebrows so that they no longer meet above her nose. A man in a dented yellow chevy sits at the bottom of the hill with his bare-like black beard. He asks Gretel if she'd steer the wheel and pump the accelerator while he pushes. Rifles fill the back seat. If she gets in the car, he could abduct her.

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