
Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates
The New Yorker: Fiction
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Is Your Client Plead Not Guilty?
My lawyer counselled me, but i am on good terms with the family again. My father is a distinguished physicist at the university. Mam and big ses were crying, and there was a stinging moisture in my eyes when judge l pronounced two years. There was a long moment when my heart stopped, before he added suspended sentence. Now we are all going to turn over a new leaf.
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