Short-a-Day: Steven Millhauser's "Getting Closer"
Originally published in The New Yorker, Jan. 3, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 95.But now, as he stands at the end of waiting, something is wrong.... If he goes into the river he'll lose the excitement, the feeling that everything matters because he's getting closer and closer to the moment he's been waiting for. When you have that feeling, everything's full of life, every leaf, every pebble. But…
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