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July 2018 Issue [Readings]

Feast of the Epiphany

By Nikolai Grozni, from Claustrophobias, a short-story collection published by his press, Begemot, in Bulgaria in 2016. Grozni is the author of the novel Wunderkind (Free Press).

It must’ve been either my thirty-third or my thirty-ninth birthday, if one is to believe the numerological charts, and there must’ve been some kind of adult arrangement involving children or else I would’ve never agreed to show myself in public in the company of three or four diversely aged creatures whose cumulative understanding of metaphysics was equivalent to the curiosity of a wart on the nose of a Rajasthani kaan-saaf wallah cleaning…

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