'I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon'

Faithless (Fast Fiction)

Faithless (Fast Fiction)

Joyce Carol Oates

Originally published in the collection of short stories of the same name, in Faithless Joyce Carol Oates dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power as two adult sisters recall their mother’s disappearance when they were children.

Originally published in the collection of short stories of the same name, in Faithless Joyce Carol Oates dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power as two adult sisters recall their mother’s disappearance when they were children.

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