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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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Piece of Shit

Piece of shit recalls that when she awoke from her appendectomy six months prior, her parents were in her hospital room. She understands that the parents would have been more likely to take Gretel to the ER if Hansa had asked them not to. In her capacious light-filled apartment, piece ofshit sits at her dining room table and shuffles tarot cards. The memory is repellent.

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