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Gabriel Heller

Gabriel Heller
Gabriel Heller’s writing has appeared in AGNI Online, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Fence, The Gettysburg Review, Okey-Panky, The Stranger, and other publications. He is the recipient of the 14th Annual Inkwell Short Story Award and teaches writing at New York University.

My Violence

By Gabriel Heller
Nonfiction•Vol. XXIX No. 1 (Spring 2016)

For my eleventh birthday, my father took me to see WrestleMania III, closed-circuit, at the Paramount Theater in downtown Seattle. Junkyard Dog knocked The King Harley Race unconscious with a chair and took his robe and crown. Rowdy Roddy Piper put Adrian Adonis in a sleeper hold, and while he was sleeping, Brutus Beefcake cut… [Read More]

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