“I was going out with two women. That I do remember clearly. One of them was getting on a bit—she must have been about my age—and the other wasn’t much more than a girl. Some days, though, they seemed like two ailing, crotchety old women, and other days like two little girls who just wanted to play.”
“William Burns,” a short story by Roberto Bolaño originally published in Spanish, has been translated into English for the first time.
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