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"Because behind him, at the foot of a fence post, with his legs higher than his body, caught in a wire fence, his beloved son, dead since ten o'clock in the morning, likes in the sun."

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
by Horacio Quiroga

Original Publication
Jan. 1, 1976
Paperback edition
June 15, 2004
166 pages

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