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Reverting to a Wild State
2011
First Published
3.84
Average Rating
7
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Free online fiction from the New Yorker. Short story, told in reverse chronological order, about the breakup of a relationship…

Avg Rating
3.84
Number of Ratings
129
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Author

Justin Torres
Justin Torres
Author · 3 books
JUSTIN TORRES grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He has worked as a farmhand, a dog-walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller.
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