Stories tagged oysters

The Snotgreen Sea

by Shelagh Power-Chopra, Mar 14, 2010
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The only reason why Paddy talked to me at all was because I quoted from Ulysses. The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea! I shouted as I shucked oysters for the dinner rush.

Quatrains Written on Stolen Time

by Gary Hardaway, Nov 03, 2013
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It is the fragrance of decay/ as paint, polymers and dyes/ outgas molecules of themselves

Lips Like Oysters

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, Feb 20, 2023
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By the end of my Saturday night shift at the Oyster Bar I look like some kind of filthy nurse