story: Gryphon
author: Charles Baxter
year: 1985
where: Reem Island
note: substitute facts!
a line: “My feeling is, if you don’t like a word, you don’t have to use it.”
story: The Rich Brother
author: Tobias Wolff
year: 1985
where: kitchen table, after midnight
note: reread
a line: “What Pete had come to, as far as he could tell, was prosperity.”
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