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

Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals”

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

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Aden and Shun's Secret Life

You fly back to houston two weeks later. Skulking away from baggage claim, you call your own car. The guy who picks you up is an older man from peru. He says that so many people have sat where you're sitting. You smiled at him through the rear view mirror. Then his driver tells you to look up because you're passing the city. There are so many things that can happen in this life,. Driver says, a human being must deal with so many things. What terrible luck, but still - what a pleasure.

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