Leopard

[Fiction] A young boy plays with the truth as he skips school one day:

“Your stepfather walks toward you. He takes your chin in his thumb and forefinger, and turns your face back and forth, as though it were a piece of merchandise he was thinking about buying.

“‘You must have fallen pretty easy,’ he says. ‘When you faint, you go down hard. You don’t have any cuts.'”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 10, 2008
Length: 18 minutes (4,559 words)
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