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“But even Death’s not a bad saint, I said to...
“But even Death’s not a bad saint, I said to the dirty kid, who looked at me with wide eyes, as if I were telling him something completely nuts. He’s a saint who can do bad things if people ask him to, but most people don’t ask for awful things—they ask for protection.”
From “The Dirty Kid” by Mariana Enriquez, recommended by McSweeney’s. Read it for free tomorrow in Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading.
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