Too cold to sleep even under these old blankets. The rattle of the open car is like a pile of bones falling down a hill of rocks. Sitting too long too damn stiff to stand. As though he could even stand in the swaying car. Watching the thick fog of their breath. How soon he asks til dawn…
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QUEASY By Susan Isla Tepper
When I found out he was the kind of guy that ate the worm I recoiled. Just thinking about all our tequila kisses made me queasy made the wal...
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Ice pops. Can you believe it? He replaced me with ice pops. Me, and . . . booze. Soon’s he quit drinking, my husband Ricky froze, like...
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lemonade hair dead and deflated thin like a bleached ghost; mascara rings fat as a star pitcher’s eyeblack; she cracked her broken finger ba...
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Once he spoke the indirect speech of men, as if making bar bets after third drinks that become sincere, become angry, mean. Just his half jo...
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