Stories tagged women

A Curse on First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross

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You see, this Jimmy Cross had a sweetheart by the name of Martha. And while he was thinking of her, one of his men died on the way to the latrine.

der Morgenmuffel

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I sat on the corner of her desk ... Angela Merkel can be a sweetie when she wants to be.

City Streak

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the little crummy salon that churned out little fat women with pinked curly hair

LADY WOOD

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I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.

For the Women

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Near Peshawar, a sister has transgressed. Her purple thumb, whipsawn, collects the dust.

Isis

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Ladies, I don’t understand your world.

The Uninvited Guest

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The first time I see her, she is slouched in a tire swing, pushing off with one foot and dragging the other beneath a dying pecan tree that probably hasn't made a nut in 20 years.

alys

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how can I get you to admit anything when you will not talk of what men crave do you not know this have you not heard this was one of the first things a man ever told me about men

The Girls & Boys Club

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She says: Princessing is not a process. I have skirts to be lifted.

The Highwayman Teaches Me About Sex and Death

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hooves moon dark latch eyes rope / Bess the landlord's daughter, the landlord's blackeyed daughter / gun breasts dress shame shouts blood blood blood

flower boat

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When the box hit bottom, the rope snapped and the flowers scattered and the silver fish of the blue green darted and turned and shot off through the rain of pink.

Advice from the Prettiest Girl in the Office

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I won't have to see the inside of an office building ever again. Well, except when I finally start that charity in my name that helps homeless teens look more attractive.

How We Fight

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HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…

Extortionist

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They leaned against the hood of his pickup, which sat heavy on its wheels, the back of it filled with the things that he’d held out of the yard sale three days earlier. “When’re you leaving?” she asked. “Early. Get on down the road. Shut ’er down ea

Heron Dream

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There are enough words for everyone.