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    Borderlands

    The earrings I chose to wear for the funeral were the silver ones, as long as my thumb with three distinctive cut-outs in the center. I had purchased the earrings in Cancun before…

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    Chapter Two: Spider Woman’s Loom

    In the Carrizo Mountains, we spent the summer preparing for the wedding and I pretended interest to avoid punishment while looking for an opportunity to leave. I received training…

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    Spider Woman’s Loom: Chapter One

    Seeing me now, with my hair thinning and skin rutted like a reservation road, you would not know that I was young once my eyes dark obsidian. When my feet arched over the land to…

    Adolescent-man

    Recently, I sent a pithy comment to my Facebook friends asking for the manual for raising a fourteen-year-old boy. Cliche’ I know but the feelings of…

    Fractured

    There are snow mermaids among us idle angels terrified to plumb the icy depths of  murderous woe.   Their eyes thick with wax, smiles startled artifice,…

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    Seven

    Emmalene wanted her daddy to be like everyone else’s. She wanted her daddy to do, to fix her bike chain when it fell off rather than…

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