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September 2013 Issue [Story]

The Two Davises and the Rug

They were both named Davis, but they were not married to each other and they were not related by blood. They were neighbors, however. They were both indecisive people, or rather, they could be very decisive about some things, important things, or things to do with their work, but they could be very indecisive about smaller things, and change their minds from one day to the next, over and over, being completely decided in favor of something one day and then completely decided against the same thing the next day.

They did not know this about each other until…

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is the author of several short-story collections and the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. Her next collection, Can’t and Won’t, will be published in April 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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