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‘Boys’ by Rick Moody

“The boys are ugly, they are failures, they will never be loved, they enter the house.”

From Demonology. New York: Faber and Faber, 2000. Read online

Posted on November 17, 2017December 10, 2017 by Jonathan GibbsPosted in May-Lan TanTagged Rick Moody. Leave a comment

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