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Issue No. 141





Thing is she didn’t think that pots and pans should go in the dishwasher, so I pointed out that there’s a setting on the dishwasher for pots and pans, just look, it’s right there, open your fuckin’ eyeballs. Well she didn’t like that very much and started in with this business about me being a loser headed nowhere and all that, which normally wouldn’t get me going except that it might be true, also ’cause it was coming from someone who supposedly cares about me and who I care about and blah blah blah I mean, I’ve pretty much looked up to her my whole life—she’s been like an older brother to me, but a lady.

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About the Author



Matt Sumell is a graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA Program in Writing, and his short fiction has since appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, Electric Literature, Noon, McSweeney’s, One Story and elsewhere. His first collection, Making Nice, is forthcoming mid-February, and he’s currently working on a non-fiction piece for Esquire.





“Punching Jackie” is forthcoming in Making Nice (Henry Holt, February 17, 2015). Copyright © 2015 by Matt Sumell All rights reserved.





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