Anne Marie Lavalette

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“A Little Advice ” by Anne Marie Lavalette

Submitted to Contest #151

I don’t recommend nursing a broken heart while eating a greasy calzone in a mall cafeteria. Especially my local mall, where you’re almost always bound to be one of two people in the entire cafeteria. The other person is the janitor, whose lack of ass and boatload of keys means his pants are hanging by a belt and a prayer. He stands in place wiping a rag over the same clean table with the same dead eyes in a perpetual frozen state since the nineteen nineties. He’s like the mosquito stuck in a sad sepia resin of capitalism’s underbel...

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Anne Marie Lavalette is a writer, feminist, and budding believer in synchronicities. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing. She is currently working on a collection of personal essays. She loves reading memoirs, swimming in rivers, campfires, iced tea, and hanging with her daughter.