Chris Adrian: “The Warm Fuzzies.”

One from the New Yorker's 20 under 40 fiction series.

Chris Adrian: “The Warm Fuzzies.”: "Her parents always gave the new kids a tambourine and stuck them back with Molly, because it was easy to play the tambourine, though there were intricacies to it that nobody else understood or appreciated, and because she was nice, though she was actually only about half as nice as . . ."