
Elizabeth Strout Reads "Motherless Child"
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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The Red-Eyed Look of a Prisoner
Olive called her son Jack and asked him to come over. When he arrived, she yelled at Christopher in front of the kids. She was so angry that she had not even dosed yet. The children didn't look at her; they ate their cereal with terrible smacking sounds. Olive felt a terrible pity for Chris after his mother's outburst.
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