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A new fiction preview, and the last day to subscribe to receive Issue Seventeen
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While you’re waiting for your copy to arrive, you can enjoy a virtual taste of the real thing, much like Beth, the narrator of Caroline Porter’s Issue Seventeen short story “Devochka,” who becomes obsessed with watching videos of one particular adult actress on a borrowed V.R. headset. Beth’s porn binge leads her to revisit memories of an adolescent stint studying abroad in Siberia — memories that feed back into her fantasy life. Read “Devochka” online today.
CAROLINE PORTER
That I had only been able to understand snatches of what she had said, could pick up on just the suggestion of dirty talk, had made it hard to tell if she was a bad actress or not. When she’d looked into my eyes, beseeching, and unleashed her torrent of half-nonsense, it had felt sincere.