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Anyone Can Do It

Manuel Muñoz

Manuel Muñoz’s story “Anyone Can Do It” was originally published in Issue 113. The story, also selected for inclusion in The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, is featured in Muñoz’s latest collection The Consequences, now available from Graywolf Press. To celebrate the release of The Consequences, we’re sharing the story in its entirety below. And if you’d like to support the work ZYZZYVA does, please consider ordering a 3-issue subscription today.

ZYZZYVA Volume 34, #2, Fall 2018
Posted on by Zack Ravas

Her immediate concern was money. It was a Friday when the men didn’t come home from the fields and, true, sometimes the men wouldn’t return until late, the headlights of the neighborhood work truck turning the corner, the men drunk and laughing from the bed of the pickup. And, true, other women might have thought

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