
David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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The Peg Tube That You Get Food In
Mickey lifted up his shirt to show Miles the peg tube. The exterior tubing was about six inches long and held against his stomach with medical tape like some silicone lambry. It's almost like when you're in the womb before you're born, how you get all your nourishment through the umbilical cord,. where your belly button is. This is like my second umbilical Cord. And when I'm done, I'll have two belly buttons.
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