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The Newborn
The swaddled newborn startles awake at a quarter to midnight. I plug his mouth with a powder blue pacifier bearing…
The Made Boy
This little boy has forgotten how he was made. He is old enough to know he can’t ask his teddy…
romantic connecticut
there is no romantic connecticut the text says, but I don’t take this as rejection. I don’t blame autocorrect. I…
Tiny Little Goat
After you left, a goat took up residence in the left ventricle of my heart. I didn’t know about my…
Boy
Boy, on the night your mother brought you into this noisy, miserable world, at exactly 11:18 pm, on a rainy…
A Middle Finger Flipped on a School Bus
On the school bus you should have seen them, monkeying around about wheels, bottles of non-alcoholic beers, Rock-Paper-Scissor, two kids…
Cheerleader
Alison was a cheerleader, and the second-prettiest girl in our class. These qualities seemed extremely important to us at the…
TRYST
The secret to sin is to do it in secret. We learned secrecy young—two girls taught to swallow our hunger—so…
No Matter How Pretty They Look
It was our first once-a-month grandmother-granddaughter date at the JCC. I hopped on the treadmill while you did Jazzercise, all…
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