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Submitted to Contest #308
The family two doors down from our house on Mulberry Place got me thinking about people who were not Catholic people because that is what I gleaned from it at age six. Ones with funny smells in their houses--the smell of a bathroom, but it was their basement. Floating fumes of distress rose up from the carpet, ham-like, sour-pickle, and like piss sometimes. Maybe they didn’t collect bottles of cleaners under the cabinet the way my mom did. Maybe they couldn’t smell it anymore because I could not tell you the smell of my own house. We become ...
Submitted to Contest #306
(CW: the imagery of a hurt farm animal) Bees are racing around these gorgeous mango-orange lilies, the grass is freshly slashed, and I spy those forced smiles on your faces. I see you out there fanning yourselves with the programs you cannot read clearly without your glasses. I know these precisely arranged white folding chairs aren't perfect for your newly aching joints and your ultra sweaty thighs, but behold...Welcome...to the end of a cycle. Four years ago was different. We'd bleed like normal femme creatures, a feathery drop or two firs...
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