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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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The Cat in the Playhouse

Gretel woke extra early but misses the bus. She's sent to the nurse, who suggests appendicitis. As she climbs the hill home, her torso's an agony. Her grandmother peered out her kitchen window and saw Gretel. A car pushes through the white veil, a station wagon.

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