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"The Turkey"
Short story by Flannery O'Connor
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Southern Gothic
Publication
Published inMademoiselle
Publication typeMagazine
Publication dateNovember 1948

"The Turkey" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published in Mademoiselle in 1948 as "The Capture." It later appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete Stories.