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bonded over since the

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I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Molly Aitken read her story,

This Is How It Happens, from the February 9th, 2026 issue of the magazine.

Aitken, a winner of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, is the author of two novels, The Island

Child and Bright Eye Burn. Now here's Molly Aitken.

This is how it happens.

It is a Wednesday or a Tuesday,

just one of those nondescript midweek days in February when all you have to look forward to

is a weekend spent in bed attempting to stroke your feral cat.

It is 1982. At least this you are sure of. You are leaving work. Your suit still damp

from the morning's dampour. the skin on your palms peeling.

You are clutching two supermarket bags, tins of crim soup and tuna knocking against one another.

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