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Happy Birthday, Ray. Today’s Story of the Day is one of my Carver favorites (the story appeared as “Mine” in Furious Seasons and as “Popular Mechanics” in WWTAWWTAL). This version, “Little Things,” was published in Where I’m Calling From.

I want to be this good.

“Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water. Streaks of it ran down from the little shoulder-high window that faced the backyard. Cars slushed by on the street outside, where it was getting dark. But it was getting dark on the inside too.”