Stories tagged wallace-stevens

The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge

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I turned around as I said this and saw that she had discarded the burqa and was now wearing the minimalist rags in which raqs sharqi--or, to lapse into Orientalisms, the Dance of the Seven Veils, the Hoochy-Koochy--is performed.

Thirteen Ways of Nevermore: Arkansas, 12/31/2010

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MIDNIGHT all day. Bleak December. A chiaroscuro, snowing blackbirds. (Pas de cinq mille, in B minor.)