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“Rondine Al Nido”

Claire Vaye Watkins

2012
Excerpt

The young men outnumber the girls by two. Our girl likes the way the four of them form a slowly closing semicircle around her and her friend. She likes, too, how they all look the same, in their baggy jeans and pastel collared shirts.

We read it in Battleborn.

 This story was recommended by Roxane Gay

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