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michael Z. wise
Michael Z. Wise is cofounder of New Vessel Press.
Christmas at the Boarding School
By Dominique Fabre, translated from the French by Michael Z. WiseDEC 17-JAN 18 | Fiction
This is an old story, a school story. I was in the third row and he was in the second, near the entrance. He had arrived in September and sometimes, when he wasn’t busy listening in class, sharpening a pencil or writing an assignment, he looked around looking a bit lost, as if he’d just gotten off an airplane and didn’t know where he was.
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