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Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”

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

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The Macdonald's Cashier

The woman was not at his car. He went into the macdonalds a second time. Did she come back in here? He asked the cashier. Who the woman i was asking about earlier with the long hair? Oh no, i don't think so. He was suddenly envious of that sheer who wasn't looking for someone who was just doing her job without having to manage a feeling of loss or doubt. The figure who looked like her, tall and thin, was a woman with two children. They got into their car and drove off.

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