It’s really a shame, my mother says. And of all people, I should know, living without Jim for so many ... It’s nothing really, my mother says, and I imagine her flicking her wrist. I know you’d all do the same ... hear the officer say something about public indecency. Mrs. Tennyson still smiles, but my mother does ...
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Spring/Summer 1998
think I don't know about YOUi you're coming to confession with me this ... birthdays," but I didn't say it loud enough that anyone could hear. Outside, moths circled the street ... weren't all the way closed-like when you're fifteen and corning horne after curfew, and ...
Page 161 from Issue 50 understand it at all," their mother was saying, the blood dripping ... he's acting." She laughed. "So tell me, if you know so much, why is he here in the ... something I've always dreamed of doing and I wanted to be sure not to forget to do it before ...
to doing so. As in: Say something if you can, but you and I both know that you may be taking ... think most folks who say things like “You should’ve called the cops” intend the disrespect they’re ... when they’re least prepared to take them on. A miscarriage in a pet store. A haunting in the early days ...
Fall 1997
at me like she's wondering should she know me, she says uncertainly, "Hi," ... "Do you love kittens?-I love kittens! I'm worried they'll starve to death all alone ... That rock music you don't need to listen to, to hear. POUNDING POUNDING POUND ING in your ...
floor like hard snow. Afterward they gave me all my teeth in a plastic cup; some were still bloody, with ... For days afterward my mother fed me milk shakes, soups, soft bread. I felt my gums swell and contract, ... slightly, mouths something softly that only she can hear, only she can understand. John Cage lives in the ...
There’s no need for that now, my mother would say if she knew what I thought, but she did not know, and ... needs some new clothes, he said to my mother. They grow so quickly. She won’t let me buy her anything. ... drew out his leather billfold and passed me a twenty. Just a little something, he said. I know how ...
hear from me, instead of the other way around. > Have I waited too long to become a mother? I type. ... says, smiling. “It’s something I wish I could protect you from. But the decision to become a mother ... I fill a glass with water, I hear my mother’s voice out of the open window. “My mother taught me how to ...
mouth with no teeth and says You're holding me all wrong, O.K.? But Jasmine has worthier dreams ... Page 110 from Issue 99 TRIQUARTERLY Jasmine Dreams My sleep is the color of burnt grapes I dream ... middle of the night when Jasmine finally calls for real now because they're walking the halls ...
