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Goddess
“So, do you still think I’m hot? I mean, do you think men still find me attractive?” Jenny asks.
This is never a good question to answer, much less …
This Morning Will Be Different
I already have long black skirts in natural fibers, and faux leather chokers with precious stone pendants. I have already grown my hair only so that I can tie …
Goodbye Ruby
For Lauren Becker
Ruby had a crush on Tom Selleck’s mustache. Her locker was wallpapered with magazine pictures of him and it just about killed her when he shaved …
All of it, Gone
The boy sleeps in a waterbed that belongs to his friend, a girl named Christie. One night in a burst of anger he takes a pencil and he punctures …
Bonds That Break
Sirens. I pull over on the shoulder of the interstate and retrieve my registration from the glove box. I watch in my rear view mirror as the officer writes …
The Dictator is Drinking Alone
The dictator is drinking alone, watching Shane and weeping into a glass of whiskey.
Well, not entirely alone. His Special Guard is there, of course, dressed in grey and …
If the River Men Take You
I’m sure Roger won’t believe me. I bet he’ll look for the psychological reasons, the passive aggression in losing my engagement ring, “supposedly,” I imagine him saying with wide …
Dial
I spent the summer calling in bomb threats, alternating between the cineplex on North Cumberland and the public library on Liberty. On the Sundays I didn’t want to attend …
Larry
Enjoy the shadow puppet adaptation of the story “Larry” by Jill Summers, appearing in Annalemma Issue Five.…
Hot
A man makes a mistake when he marries a hot woman. Especially if the man is an average, no-frills-attached guy.
This is not to say that my wife, Liz, …
