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Chris Adrian is an American author. His books include Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, A Better Angel, and The Great Night, and his short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and Story. He was selected by The New Yorker as one of their "20 Under 40" and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Listing 2 stories.
During the Civil War, a young man finds purpose helping the wounded while visiting his own injured brother.
An autistic, selectively mute eight-year-old boy befriends a girl who secretly murders neighborhood pets. He becomes the accomplice to her sociopathic crimes, in the hopes that she can somehow lead him back to his dead twin brother.