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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People”

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

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Lisa and Peter - The Man Who Came With Her

Gilly assumed that the man was also a philosopher. How else could they talk for so long? She had a clear picture of him in her head, tall and noble looking with wiry limbs and wiry eyebrows. Gilly realized she was picturing an actor from a movie she'd seen years before. The man watched Peter spring into action, no bare feet in the kitchen. He saw the tiny piece of glass that got stuck in Gilly's heel anyway,. If she squeezed the rough skin in the right place, a perfect bead of blood bloomed on the surface.

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