Kid in a Well - pretend genius [press]

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"I never work on days when there's a fire in town. It's a holiday as far as I'm concerned, and not just because it means the end of the world to some poor bastard, or family thereof..." "Kid in a Well" by Willie Davis, won the Willesden Short Story Prize 2007, judged by Zadie Smith. Willie Davis is a teacher at the University of Maryland. This story in included in the anthology New Short Stories 1 (Pretend Genius, 2007)

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