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The Right to Be Afraid

by M. Coronado

A Ukrainian exile in a 3am laundromat. A thermostat war. A coat that belongs to the wrong man. His sister, watching from Kyiv, finally understands what he's really been afraid of.


**What He Told Me First**

My brother tells me everything twice, so I have heard about the laundromat woman from two angles now, and in both of them he is lying to me a little.

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