Jimmy is nine going on ten. All week long he’s been looking forward to this family excursion to the park by the river, and now it’s here. He’s standing on the shore. His sister Julia, older, already in the water, is waving him in.
Steven Millhauser, “Getting Closer,” in We Others: New and Selected Stories (2008).
This story is one of the most moving pieces of short fiction I’ve read. You can read it right now at The New Yorker.
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Friday, July 7, 2023
Beginning the day
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