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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 Reliquary

The sisters arrived at the reliquadry. The interior was 16 inches deep and divided into four sister-sized births, "'with four corresponding portraits painted on the back of the doors' "K.K.'s dress was already arranged in the first birth, "'placed there earlier this morning," she writes. 'It's various moth holes were unrepaired, but it could still fit a 15-year-old girl.'"

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