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“Battle,” by Weike Wang | The New Yorker

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He is better at words. She is better at sentences.

Save this story Save this story This is the fourth story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here . He is better at words. She is better at sentences. Games they like to play involve the former, and he wins the vast majority of them the vast majority of the time. Debates they find themselves in involve the latter, and there hasn’t been an occasion (on record) of him winning one for many, many years. Crosswords, Scrabble, that new game with green and yellow squares, he excels at. Given six tries to guess a five

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