Stories tagged women

The Model & The Artist

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I advertised in the local paper for a model.

A Sonnet for Anna

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Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar

Cube of Boxes

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You could not only hear, but feel the pulse of thundering traffic from a flyover that arced a quarter of a mile from the communal lobby of unpolished floors, multiple letterboxes and dehydrated ferns in various plaster pots.

Living Alone

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The thing about living alone is, you’ve got no one to scratch your back. If it’s a whisper of an itch, a fleeting thing, it can usually be taken care of by leaning casually against a doorframe and swaying back and forth. Which can actually be quite nice,

Cell Phone

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Hey, how are you? she squeaked.

Light

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"You gonna be old before you're old," my father had told her.

Agnés and Albertine

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Albertine had never loved Agnés. Oh! She had liked her very much. Especially her wit, the skin at the nape of her neck, even the two freckles on her arse that would bloom when licked.

None But The Righteous

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Susan was twenty-four when it happened again, but she had neither the patience nor the attachment to see it through.

Iowa

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"It was John-Darren who once told me that he felt sorry for women."

Suspended Heart

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The suspended heart became an oracle of sorts. Hung from a string, immersed in the kind of glass container in which tulips grow, it was located between Bath and Body Works and Kleinfelter's Jewelers at the north entrance of the mall. Someone had lost it,

The Wedding: Snow White

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I dreamed, like all girls, of my dance in white satin, never this:

When Lightning Strikes Men

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God created everything except apparently women's bodies, for which they are entirely themselves to blame.

Bricks

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There are things we must not say.

Tenth Love Poem and Tenth Song of Despair

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In the west the sun is sinking. Thank you

The Bible

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I watch the dance of devotion