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Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”

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

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Piece of Shit's Kind Boyfriend

Gretel says she felt an explosive pain the night before. Piece of shit asks how Gretel's feeling. She reminds Gretel that she had appendicitis, which Hansa diagnosed. The author publishes a book about the mother who donates the eyeballs and it sells millions of copies. A white wall fills her vision as if she cannot move.

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