The Art of Funny

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Stunning Sentences

The Art of Funny

"Fortune," by Joy Williams

When would the parents stop coming? They’d been coming for months, since Christmas, since before Christmas, since the burning of the Devil festivities on the seventh.

“Fortune,” by Joy Williams

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