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

David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”

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

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Miles's Spiral Notebook

'Welcome to the dumb-ass model show,' Miles wrote. 'Lacey!' his mother whispered, reaching back into a picnic basket and pulling out a spiral notebook. "'Miles wanted to remember it,'" he said. "It could have been one of Catherine's prompts." The boy then noticed four birds drawn in the horizon above those blue lanes subdivide in black ink. They were probably Ravens. But they could have been crows."'Don't ask us how we are dead," Lacey continued."We are just dead'"

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