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Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days”

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

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The Man Who Refused to Repent

My mother's Bible was teal leather with a cross etched in. Tucked between the pages were cards made by my siblings and me. The skull partly submerged, the eyes closed, the lower jaw slung open. I'd seen my brother's penis but this was the first time I'd seen one on a grown man. All that sin bound up in such a small flailing thing.

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