Etan Nechin is an Israeli writer living in New York. He is the online editor of The Bare Life Review: A Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. His writing is published in Boston Review, ZYZZYVA, the Brooklyn Rail, the Independent, Apogee, Columbia Journal, and more. He is the recipient of the Felipe de Alba Award for Fiction.
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The students noticed an opening at the bottom of the fence, a tear in the wires. On the other side of the fence was the outside, which they only saw from the bus window…