Friends
“Can a friend kidnap a friend?”
Laura van den Berg’s short story “Friends” is excerpted from the new fiction anthology Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto and published by Black Balloon, an imprint of Catapult.

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Laura van den Berg is the author of the novel Find Me and two story collections, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth. Her next novel, The Third Hotel, is forthcoming from FSG in August. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband and dog.
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