Gordon Lish

"This definitive collection of Lish's short work includes a forword by the author and 106 stories, many of which Lish has revised exclusively for this edition"--Page 4 of cover.

Collected Fictions

Kutalp (Kutalp)

All my life I have never known what to do with my hands.

Apropos of which, here's the first bit of it.

So how do you like it?—"Consider yourself kissed."

It's what my mother used to say to my sister.

Which is maybe why my sister once woke up once and then went ahead and swallowed more sleeping pills than I guess she guessed she was ever going to be able ever again to ever wake up from.

As for myself, I used to think it didn't put her in the best of lights for her to be going around being heard looking like somebody saying things like that.

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