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The Fiction Issue 2010

The Sisters Brothers

I was sitting outside the Commodore’s mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job. It was threatening to snow and I was cold and for want of something to do I studied Charlie’s new horse Nimble. My new horse was called Tub.
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Κείμενο Patrick DeWitt

(Click here to listen to the story read by filmmaker and writer Carson Mell)

OREGON CITY, 1851

PART ONE: TROUBLE WITH THE HORSES

is

His tears behind a veil of flowers, the news came in from town

His virgin seen near country bower, in arms of golden down

His heart mistook her smile for kindness, and now he pays the cost.

His woman lain in sin, her highness, endless love is lost.

make me sad

him

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why

Periwinkle

Queen Bee

will be released in May 2011 by Ecco.