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William Styron
On when he writes: “I like to stay up late at night and get drunk and sleep late. . . . The afternoon is the only time I have left . . . ”
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Poetry from James Schuyler and Robert Hass.

A dispatch from the high plains of eastern Congo by Lieve Joris.

New stories by Aimee Bender, Patricio Pron, and Carsten René Nielsen.

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BENJAMIN PERCY, “ME VS. ANIMALS”

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Patricio Pron

Our fears from that point on shifted: we were no longer worried about Peter’s disappearance, but rather the way he seemed to have gained influence over the other children in the town and was dragging them along with him. Added to the anguish of the parents whose children had left them was the anguish of those who feared their children would be next. Many stopped sending their kids to school and there were those—but this was only known later—who locked them in their rooms to keep them from escaping, but the children always managed to get out anyway, imbued with an intelligence and a strength whose source was unbeknownst to us and that emerged as soon as Peter and the other children appeared on the horizon, slightly crouching in wait.



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