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

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The Story of Roll Neck

Rol neck was sentenced to 18 months in the women's prison at hornek. After she got out, she moved to potsdam and eventually found work in a factory canteen. She served and swept and scrubbed and tried her best never to speak to another living soul. Then one day she arrived to find the canteen kes gathered round a radio,. listening as if their lives depended on what the announcer was saying. Hadn't she heard? The boarders were open and hungry? Rol neck thought it must be a ruse, a way to entrap traitors. From then on, things moved very fast. People were packing and leaving for the west. Not

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