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Naomi Kanakia

Goodwill

Naomi Kanakia
Goodwill

Let’s say you work in a candy factory cleaning the chocolate vats, and the job is dull, but you’re like, It’s necessary so the kids can be safe. Except then you read an article about how your boss’s boss basically puts cocaine in the chocolate bars that makes kids go insane with lust and craving for more of their product. — So you quit and get a loan to go to school and work for an NGO that builds solar drinking wells, and yeah it’s dull and mostly filing forms—no use for a brain, or that … [Read more...] about Goodwill

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American Short Fiction Issue 82

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New stories by Lydi Conklin, Annie Liontas, Kyle McCarthy, Carrie R. Moore, KJ Nakazawa-Kern, and Colleen Rosenfeld.

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