What Is It Like To be an Oyster?

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What Is It Like To be an Oyster?

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And then the light cracked into them, and then the question mark that was the world snapped itself out straight, dividing them from mystery forever.

“The Oysters,” by Wendy Brenner, from her collectio…

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